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#OurHomesAreOpen: Lebanese offer spare beds to Beirut blast victims

#OurHomesAreOpen: Lebanese offer spare beds to Beirut blast victims

BAN BARKAWI USING social media, hundreds of Lebanese have offered shelter to strangers displaced by a devastating blast, which Beirut's governor said may have left 250,000 people homeless. Tuesday evening's explosion in port warehouses storing explosive material was the most powerful ever to rip through the capital, killing some 110 people, injuring about 4,000 and tearing the facades off buildings and overturning cars. Using the hashtag #OurHomesAreOpen in Arabic and English, social media users have freely offered up spare beds and empty properties to victims, providing their names, phone numbers and details on the size and location of the accommodation.…
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100 die, over 3000 injured in massive Beirut blast

100 die, over 3000 injured in massive Beirut blast

SAMIA NAKHOUL and YARA ABI NADER  A HUGE huge explosion in a port warehouse district near the centre of Beirut has killed more than 100 people, injured over 3000 others and sent shockwaves across the Lebanese capital, shattering windows and causing apartment balconies to collapse. Officials expected the death toll to rise sharply as emergency workers dug through rubble across a swathe of the city to rescue people and remove the dead. It was the most powerful blast to hit Beirut in years, making the ground tremble. "What we are witnessing is a huge catastrophe," the head of Lebanon's Red…
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