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On September 3, the instruments recorded a heartbeat under the ruins of a residential building near the port of Beirut. Someone may have survived after spending a month in ruins, rescuers say.
Rescue teams in Beirut search for a person alive under the rubble of a building destroyed by an explosion in the port on August 4. The BBC reports.
On September 2, a Chilean rescue team passed the ruins of a residential building in the area. Mar Michael near the harbor when the dog made a sign the fact that there is a person inside. On the morning of September 3, the dog gave the same signal again.
The team used a scanner that records breathing and heartbeat in depth. The Chileans then began digging up the rubble in hopes of finding a survivor. Every now and then there were calls for silence so that the crew could hear the sounds from below the ruins.
The Lebanese army, firefighters and volunteer rescuers arrived at the house. The Red Cross has set up tents and floodlights.
The search continued on September 4. As reported by AFP Nicholas Saade, rescue coordinator, signals from the scanner indicate that the presumed survivor’s pulse has slowed significantly.
The record for survival under the ruins was set in 2005. A Pakistani resident spent more than two months in her kitchen, unable to get out from under the ruins after a strong earthquake, the BBC wrote.
A powerful explosion in the port of Beirut occurred on the night of August 4. Many buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the areas near the port of the Lebanese capital. Reuters reported, citing eyewitnesses, that the blast was so powerful that even residents of Cyprus’ capital Nicosia, which is almost 200 km from Beirut, felt it. Al Jazeera TV reported that the blast had thrown cars onto the roof of the about three-story-high factory.
The victims were 220 people. The governor of the Lebanese capital, Marwan Abboud, said that as a result of the explosion, up to 300,000 people were left homeless. Explosion damage could reach $ 15 billion.
According to preliminary information, the explosion occurred in the ammonium nitrate warehouse after a fire caused by welding.
According to Reuters, Lebanese authorities ignored offers from customs to re-export or sell 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate confiscated from the Rhosus ship (owned by Russian businessman Igor Grechushkin) in the port of Beirut. As the agency interlocutor said, the team of inspectors warned that if the saltpeter was not removed, “all of Beirut could be blown up.”
The explosion and its aftermath sparked massive protests, against which the Lebanese government resigned on August 10.
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