At 06:09 on Tuesday, disaster struck in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. As explosions destroyed the city, one woman conquered the moment striking, and liberated it in time.
Lebanese photographer Aya Nehme shared a photo she took on her Instagram this week of having a car completely destroyed by the explosions. At the center of the pound is a clock, sticking to the time 6:09 – the exact moment the explosion happened.
“It stopped short, never to go again, when Beirut died,” Nehme wrote.
Aya Nehme
Nehme told CBS News that she took the photo in the Mar Mikhael neighborhood of Beirut. She said the photo was not submitted.
“I went downtown to catch some trace of life in this chaos,” she said. “I came across a wrecked car, in the truck, a clock. A clock that stopped at exactly 6:09 p.m. The time it all happened. I walked these streets for 25 years, and today I could see them. do not recognize. “
The photo is reminiscent of the iconic frozen bells and clocks found after the atomic bomb was destroyed Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Hardened timepieces of that day were trapped at about 8:15 a.m. when the U.S. Air Force dropped the uranium bomb, killing more than 100,000 people.
Tuesday’s explosions, which killed at least 150 people and injured thousands more, destroyed much of Beirut’s port and damaged many of its iconic and historic neighborhoods, such as homes, hospitals and businesses. About a quarter of a million people lost their homes.
The hospitals of Beirut remained overwhelming by the wounded, and there were fears of a spike in cases of coronavirus.
While investigators focus on port officials, many Lebanese put the blame for the explosions on the political elite, including anti-government the protest erupting in the days after the incident.
Natacha Larnaud contributed to this report.
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