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It has been 30 days since two powerful explosions destroyed much of the port area of the Lebanese capital. At least 220 people died and the hope of finding additional survivors was almost non-existent, until today.
A Chilean rescue team, with the help of a sensor, captured what is suspected to be human heartbeats, he writes Beirut City Guide on Twitter.
– We are currently searching with the help of technology, a rescuer told the SVT Nyheter team at the scene.
Is there a survivor?
– I can’t reveal that information. But we are currently working to save or remove what is there. Our technology gives us signals.
Search dog sniffed
The search is taking place in the landslides in the Mar Mikhael district. A search dog must have detected an odor during the night between Wednesday and Thursday, writes the AFP news agency.
According to a representative of the Beirut fire department, a thermal imaging camera has detected what is suspected to be a human pulse at a depth of about two meters.
– So far, a dead person has been found, but there are also signs that someone is breathing there, Edward Bitar of the Live love Beirut organization told the SVT news team on the site.
The decision to cancel stirs anger
Later, on Thursday night, the search was paused to resume on Friday morning, he writes among others. BBC and Washington Post. That the effort has been put on hold is partly due to the fact that they lack cranes to transport the landslides and that there are concerns the building will collapse, the BBC writes.
The decision to suspend the search sparked anger among several Beirut residents, and bystanders of the operation had to loudly protest.
As the rescue service left the scene, several individuals also donned helmets to try to resume the search themselves, writes the Washington Post. However, the soldiers quickly escorted them from the building.
More than 200 people were killed and more than 6,500 injured in the August 4 explosions, which were caused by large amounts of ammonium nitrate stored in the port area for reasons still unknown.
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