Hope for survivors is dwindling «kleinezeitung.at



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Based on the measured tones of the heartbeat, rescuers have yet to find anyone in ruins.

5.46 pm, September 5, 2020

Chilean rescue team perceived a “breathing signal” © AP

In Beirut Hopes are diminishing that a month after the explosion at the port, survivors can still be found in the rubble. After this High-tech sensors showed a heartbeat through the rubble of a building volunteers continued digging in the area on Saturday. “So far we haven’t found anything,” he said. Head of Civil Defense, George Abou Moussa.

The chances of finding someone alive are “very slim”. But rescuers still didn’t want to give up after three days of searching. “We will not get out here before we go through the rubble, even if a new building is about to collapse,” said an aide. Of the Chilean specialist Walter Munoz put the chance of finding a survivor at “two percent.”

The hope of the survivors under the rubble had electrified Beirut residents. In addition to the pulse rate of a special sensor, the experts also detected slow breathing under the rubble. The helpers drove tunnels from three sides to reach the site. “I didn’t realize I needed a miracle so bad. Please God give Beirut this miracle it deserves“said the 32 year old Filmmaker Selim Mourad to search job ..

At least 190 people and more than 6,000 died in the disaster in the port of Beirut on August 4. injure. Much of the port and surrounding residential areas have been destroyed.



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