In the wake of Tuesday’s deadly port explosion in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut’s governor said that the material damage from the incident will cost some $3-5 billion.
“NO ACCURATE NUMBERS REGARDING THE MISSING”
“Beirut has become a devastated city… half of it destroyed and hundreds of thousands of residents will not be able to return to their homes before two or three months,” Marwan Abboud told reporters Wednesday.
The governor said there were “no accurate numbers regarding the missing.”
It also happened days before Friday’s scheduled verdict by a UN-backed court in the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.