Lebanon has no money to fight the consequences of the explosion in the capital Beirut. This was stated by the Minister of economy Raul Neme in an interview to Sky News Arabiya.
He stressed that the Lebanese government sees the only way of solving the problems in cooperation with the International monetary Fund (IMF), which can help the country to cope with the consequences of the accident. NEMA added that Lebanon and was suffering from a serious economic crisis for the past 30 years: in addition to the explosion, in 2020 the situation worsened pandemic COVID-19.
The economy Minister described the explosion in the port of Beirut Hiroshima in miniature. According to him, there is totally damaged terminals for grain storage — and that’s not all damage, which could cause an explosion. Authorities continue to gather information about the consequences.
On 5 August it became known that the shipment of ammonium nitrate, allegedly became the reason of powerful explosion in Beirut, was confiscated from the ship Rhosus, which belonged to the native of Khabarovsk, Igor Grechushkina. Russians and Ukrainians who worked at Rhosus, had to stay in Lebanon for a year as the owner went bankrupt and abandoned ship.
A powerful explosion occurred in the port area on the evening of 4 August. The damage done to the many quarters of the city, the blast were hurt, the Embassy of Russia. According to the latest data, injured more than 4 thousand people, not less than 300 thousands lost their homes. Found the bodies of more than a hundred victims.
In law enforcement bodies of Lebanon said that the explosion happened at the time of welding. The Prime Minister of Lebanon Hassan Diyab said that the explosion occurred due to storage in a warehouse in the seaport capital of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate for six years. When this volatile substance was there no preventive measures and threatened the security of citizens, said Diyab.
