Sifting Beirut’s rubble for bodies: Over 100 people are killed and thousands hurt after ‘welder’ sparks warehouse fire that ignited 2,700 tons of highly explosive chemicals ‘seized from a ship’ causing 3 kiloton blast – a fifth the size of Hiroshima bomb
- Survivors of a bomb blast that devastated Beirut are searching the rubble of their city for victims today
- Death toll stands at 100 and is expected to rise, with more than 4,000 wounded as hospitals struggle to cope
- Barely a building left untouched by blast the size of a small nuke, thought to have been sparked by a welder
- Leaders rushed to offer aid as extent of destruction was laid bare, in country already suffering economic crisis
- Prime Minister vowed th…
