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Exactly one month after the explosions in the port of Beirut, this Friday, on a street in the Lebanese capital, a real race against time was taking place to rescue a person alive among the rubble of a building in the Mar Mikhael area.
The signs of life were detected by a dog belonging to the Chilean rescue team. “Rescue teams were passing through the building on Wednesday night when the dog pointed out that someone was alive inside,” writes the BBC.
According to the team leader of Topos Chile, a Chilean government organization dedicated to rescue and humanitarian aid, heartbeats and breathing were identified under the rubble.
“These signals, along with the temperature sensor, mean there is a possibility of life,” Eddy Bitar, a member of the rescue team, told reporters at the scene.
A Portuguese woman who was injured and displaced describes to Expresso how the Lebanese capital is recovering. “Many people and I are a little out of place, we sleep in one house, then we go to another, we always walk because there is still much to rebuild.”
After the operation at the site, journalist Sunniva Rose wrote on the social network Twitter that the detected heartbeat suggests that it is a child, although officially there is no record of any child among the seven people who are still missing.
According to the reporter, this Friday the Chileans, who wear orange vests, were gathered in the public thoroughfare and were discussing the next steps to take. “They probably still have to keep working for several hours. This is far from over. “
The operation involves several excavators, a crane, a dust extraction machine and a drone. According to the BBC, the work was suspended overnight, due to lack of means to face the danger of collapse, but volunteers continued to remove the rubble by hand.
