The search for victims ends under a building destroyed by the Beirut explosion
The search for victims under a building destroyed by the Beirut Port explosion ended without finding any survivors or even bodies, days after it was announced that pulses were detected in the place, according to an official in the Lebanese Civil Defense.
A team of Chilean rescuers assisting in the search operations, on Wednesday evening, monitored what they said was a "heartbeat" under the rubble of a building in the Mar Mikhael area near the port. This news raised the hopes of many, but it soon diminished gradually.
"There is nothing," the director of operations in the Lebanese Civil Defense, George Abu Moussa, told AFP. "We did not find anyone alive or dead."
The captain of the Chilean team, Francesco Lermanda, said Saturday evening after three days of searches, "Unfortunately, today we can say that there is no sign of life in the destroyed building."
The upper floors of the building, which housed on its ground floor a bar, were transformed into a pile of rubble as a result of the August 4 blast, which made searches require precision and skill.
Lebanon does not have disaster management equipment nor advanced technical capabilities.
Many countries rushed to send relief teams and technical assistance to help him after the explosion.
The explosion killed 191 people and injured more than 6,500 others, as well as displaced 300,000 people, whose homes were damaged or destroyed.
There are still seven missing, according to official estimates.
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