Rescue workers continue to search for a possible survivor for the third day in a row under the rubble of a building destroyed by the explosion that occurred a month ago in the Beirut port, despite "little hope," according to the Lebanese Civil Defense.
A newly arrived Chilean rescue team in Beirut through sophisticated thermal devices monitored "heartbeats," according to what local officials said a few days ago, under the rubble of a building on Mar Mikhael Street, a trained dog with them had inferred.
Despite the near impossibility of having life a month after the explosion, the news that a person could be found alive revived many hopes, and then gradually diminished with no signs of life being detected. Walter Munoz of the Chilean relief team explained to reporters that "there is hope of 2%." Just".
For his part, Qassem Khater, one of the civil defense volunteers at the site, said that they will not leave the site until they search under all the rubble, even though the building is threatened with collapse, indicating that the operations today are focused on the stairs of the destroyed building.
"After removing the large rubble, we conducted a new survey to monitor the heartbeat or breath, and the survey showed a low rate of 7 per minute," said Nicholas Saadeh, who works for an organization that coordinates the Chilean research team and the civil defense, after it had previously recorded a rate that ranged. Between 16 and 18 ″ per minute.
The upper floors of the building were turned into a pile of rubble as a result of the explosion, making searches demanding high skill and accuracy.
The blast killed 191 people, injured more than 6,500 others, and displaced 300,000 people, and their homes were damaged or destroyed.
Official estimates indicate that at least 7 people are still missing.