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At the Port of Beirut, Tears, Missing and Dead

Agence France-Presse

   BEIRUT - At one of the entrances to the port of Beirut, a 20-year-old
   woman runs screaming the name of her brother. His name is Jad and his
   eyes are green, she says looking haggard. In vain. The security forces
   are forbidding passage.

   A few meters away, another panicked woman looks for her brother. But in
   the look, little hope, after the violent and deadly explosions that
   left 73 dead and 3,700 injured, causing unprecedented damage throughout
   the capital, traumatizing the inhabitants.

   For more than three hours, the ambulance crossover continues at an
   incessant pace, accompanied by the howl of sirens, vehicles entering
   the disaster area to leave loaded with victims.

   In the epicenter of the explosion, an apocalyptic landscape: the
   containers look like twisted tin cans, their contents spilled on the
   ground. Throbbing flames and clouds of black smoke rise into the sky,
   which army helicopters unsuccessfully attempt to extinguish with water
   collected from the sea.

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