WARNING: Disturbing content. Footage shows two huge blasts that ripped through downtown Beirut. The explosions killed dozens, injured thousands and levelled buildings across the Lebanese capital. More here:
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For blocks around the port, where the explosion took place, bloodied residents staggered through streets lined with overturned cars and littered with rubble from shattered buildings. Windows and doors were blown out kilometres away. Army helicopters helped battle fires raging at Beirut's port. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo extended his "deepest condolences" to the people of Beirut and said the United States is closely monitoring the situation. "Our team in Beirut has reported to me the extensive damage to a city and a people that I hold dear, an additional challenge in a time of already deep crisis," Pompeo said in a written statement.
Beirut's governor, Marwan Abboud, broke into tears as he toured the site, exclaiming, "Beirut is a devastated city." Prime Minister Hassan Diab vowed that "those responsible will pay." Some of those injured lay on the ground at the port, Associated Press staff at the scene said. A civil defence official said there were still bodies inside the port, many under debris.
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