• A man stands across the road from the damaged grain silos of Beirut's harbor on Wednesday, one day after a powerful explosion tore through Lebanon's capital, resulting from the ignition of a huge depot of ammonium nitrate at the city's main port. | AFP-JIJI
    A man stands across the road from the damaged grain silos of Beirut's harbor on Wednesday, one day after a powerful explosion tore through Lebanon's capital, resulting from the ignition of a huge depot of ammonium nitrate at the city's main port. | AFP-JIJI

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BEIRUT – Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion that killed more than 100 people, an official source familiar with the findings said.

The prime minister and presidency have said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilizers and bombs, had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures.

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