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On Thursday, rescue teams resumed their search for possible missing persons under the rubble of a building destroyed by the Beirut explosion, after a specialized Chilean team detected signs of at least one body and monitored the heartbeat, according to the governor. from Beirut, Marwan Abboud.
Despite the passage of a month after the explosion in the port of Beirut, and the logical impossibility of finding survivors, the news spread quickly in Lebanon and on social networks, and revived hopes.
Official estimates indicate that seven people remain missing since the tragedy.
While inspecting search work on Mar Mikhael Street in Beirut, Abboud told reporters that a rescue squad had recently arrived from Chile and that one of his trained dogs deduced an odor.
After the team inspected the building whose upper floors collapsed, via a specialized thermal scanning device, it became clear, according to Abboud, that “there appears to be one or two corpses, and there may be living ones,” adding that the device detected a “heartbeat.”
“We hope someone makes it out alive,” he added.
According to residents of the neighborhood, the building, which housed a bar on its ground floor, turned into piles of rubble, making searches “sensitive and precise,” according to Abboud.
Lebanon has neither the equipment nor the technical capacity for disaster management.
Several countries rushed to dispatch aid and technical assistance teams after the explosion, which killed at least 190 people and injured more than 6,500.
“Now we are working to raise the fill to reach the two people with a depth of about two meters,” said First Lt. Michel Murr of the Beirut Fire Brigade, explaining: “We try as much as possible to find out if there are neighborhoods “.
A Lebanese rescuer involved in debris removal operations said the scanning device was taking “19 breaths per minute,” indicating there are possibilities other than life, but emphasized that “the dog is trained to detect the smell of humans only. “
The Lebanese reacted with great emotion to the possible presence of neighborhoods. One of the Twitter users wrote: “There is a beating heart, Beirut.” And post an EKG.
Another tweet read: “More than six million heartbeats at the same time require a person to hit under the rubble.”
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