Beirut blast victims demand justice

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 10, 2021 1:00 am

BEIRUT: Lebanese protestors carried imitation coffins in a symbolic funeral procession from the port of this city to demand justice, days after the first anniversary of a vast dockside explosion that killed more than 200 people.

Families of the victims were joined by dozens of supporters, some wearing black and carrying burning torches, at an entrance to the port where a warehouse fire on August 4 last year ignited a vast stash of ammonium nitrate, causing one of the biggest peacetime blasts in history.

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