Thousands of grief-stricken Lebanese marched Wednesday to mark a year since a cataclysmic #explosion ravaged #Beirut, protesting impunity over the country's worst peacetime #disaster at a time when its #economy was already in tatters.
Shortly after 6:00 pm on August 4, 2020, a stock of ammonium nitrate fertiliser haphazardly stored at the city's port exploded and left swathes of the Lebanese capital looking like a war zone.
What went down as one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history killed at least 214 people, levelled entire neighbourhoods, irreparably scarred the nation's psyche and deepened the country's economic abyss. France 24's correspondent Sally Farhat tells us more.
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