BEIRUT ROCKED BY THOUSANDS OF ANGRY PROTESTERS (VIDEO + PHOTOS)

Middle East World

Sat 08 August 2020:

Thousands of people poured into Beirut’s main square hanging up symbolic nooses that they say officials should be hanged on over this week’s blast amid clashes between protesters and riot police near parliament.

The demonstrators clashed with security forces who fired tear gas at the crowd in an attempt to disperse them.

Riot police had started firing tear gas at the demonstrators after they tried to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building in central Beirut.

Protesters forcibly removed one of the gates outside the parliament building, as dozens chanted against President Michel Aoun and the Iran-Backed Hezbollah group.

Some carried cardboard cutouts of Lebanese politicians, while others held flags.

The Lebanese army issued a statement on Saturday urging the protesters to act peacefully and to refrain from closing roads or attacking public or private property.

 

More than 6,000 others were injured in the capital on Tuesday when a warehouse storing 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded after catching on fire.

The blast destroyed entire buildings and shattered windows, leaving around 300,000 people in Beirut homeless.

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