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Lebanese Acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced yesterday that the US FBI report estimated at 500 tons the amount of ammonium nitrate that exploded inside the port of Beirut on August 4.
Lebanese authorities attributed the terrible explosion at the time, which killed more than two hundred people and injured more than 6,500, to a fire that broke out in a warehouse where it was stored, as Diab announced at the time, a number of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate six years ago without protective measures.
In an interview with several journalists at the Prime Minister’s headquarters, according to a statement from his media office, Diab stated that “the FBI report revealed that the quantity that exploded was only 500 tons.” He wondered: “Where did the remaining 2,200 tons go?”
A team from the “FBI” participated in the initial investigation. French researchers were also involved in the evidence gathering process.
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