The story behind BEIRUT BLAST

LEBANON is a country in western Asia with a population of 68.5 lakhs. The main two religions are Islam with 54 % of citizens and Christanity with 40.7% of the citizens. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.

 

There is a port which is known as  Beirut port silos where 2750 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate were stored. From this warehouse a huge blast occurred and its impact was felt till 20 km.Till now 100 people were reported dead and more than 4000 people were wounded and more than 100 people are missing.

Main question arises how did this blast occur ?

It all started in september 2013 , when a ship headed from Georgia to Mozambique faced technical problems and had to dock in the Beirut port. Ship was carrying 2750 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate .

Ammonium Nitrate is generally used as a fertilizer. However it readily forms explosive mixtures with varying properties when combined with primary explosives such as azide or with fuels such as aluminium powder or fuel oil and because of this its use and trade is restricted by many countries.

When Beirut’s port authority found Ammonium Nitrate in the ship they said that this ship would be not allowed to go further as it stored Ammonium Nitrate without proper paperwork. The owner of the ship abandoned the project by saying that this ship doesn’t belong to them and Lebanon can keep this ship.

Now Lebanon faced the problem of what to do with this huge amount of Ammonium Nitrate ?

So in 2015 they decided to keep this in a storage house located at Beirut port silos and they will look after this matter later This was the extreme negligence to keep huge amounts of Ammonium Nitrate at the port which is one of the busiest places. Ammonium Nitrate which was stored here since 2014 suddenly blasted and it was horrific.

Now the reason given by authorities of this blast is due to negligence and carelessness. But this took another angle when Trump made a comment on the Beirut blast. He said that this was an attack. So a question arises: who can do this? First culprit comes to mind is Israel but through its various sources confirms that they had nothing to do with this blast. Why israel?  Because there is a group called HEZBOLLAH in Lebanon which is involved in their internal affairs and politics and this is a militant group many countries declared them as a terrorist including Israel and they constantly attack Israel. So this theory arises that Israel was the reason behind the blast but Israel confidently denies this.

Presently it makes it more difficult for Lebanon with covid 19 infections on the rise , hospitals were already struggling to cope.

2020 is a curse for human race .