A Naples restaurant owner tells Fox 4 that his sister suffered minor injuries after an explosion rocked the capital of Lebanon on Tuesday.
THEY’VE BEEN BEEN TESTED ANDHAVE YET TO HEAR BACK.explosion, repeated onceTHAT EXPLOSION IN BEIRUT,LEBANON HAS KILLED MORE THAN 70PEOPLE AND LEFT MORE THAN 3000PEOPLE HURT ..
AND A SOUTHWESTFLORIDA MAN IS AMONG THOSEWATCHING THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTSCLOSELY.
A GOVERNMENT MINISTERSAYS 2700 TONS OF HIGHLYEXPLOSIVE MATERIAL ..AMMONIUMFUELED THE INITIAL FIRE AND THEEXPLOSION YOU JUST SAW ANDHEARD.THE OFFICIAL SAYS THAT MATERIALWAS CONFICATED FROM A CARGO SHIP6 YEARS AGO AND HAD BEEN STOREDIN THE PORT SINCE THEN.LEBANON’S PRIME MINISTER SAYSTHERE WILL BE A PRICE TO PAY,AND SOMEONE WILL BE HELDRESPONSIBLE.RESCUE CREWS CONTINUE TO SEARCHFOR SURVIVORS AT THIS HOUR.HOSPITALS ARE FLOODED WITHPATIENTS WHO HAVE WOUNDS FROMDEBRIS CAUSED BY THE EXPLOSION.THE LEBANESE RED CROSS HAS PUTOUT A DESPERATE CALL FOR BLODONATIONS AS THE COUNTRY HASALREADY BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THECORONAVIRUS.NOW THAT FAMILY HERE INSOUTHEWEST FLORIDA REELING FROMTHE DISASTER IN BEIRUT.
NABILBASSIL IS THE OWNER OF MOURABISTRO IN NAPLES.HIS SISTER SURVIVED THEEXPLOSION WITH MINOR INJURIES.HE TELLS US HER BUSINESS WASDESTROYED BY WHAT HAPPENED.[Notes:live sendsbeirutlocalsot4](00-20)the closest that livesthere is my sister so i took thephone and i called her rightaway and she didn’t pick up.
Bythe end of the day i did speakto her, she was talking to me ofcourse she was really tired,shook, wounded[Notes:LIVE SENDSBEIRUTLOCALSOT1](11s) people are saying this ishiroshima... they refer tohiroshima, the mushroom thcovered the entire city, theentire city of lebanon washumongous.THE EXPLOSION WAS FELT 140 M
Normal Bassil shares her story of survival after the Beirut explosion and the moment she finally got in touch with her brother in..