Obstruction to Beirut blast probe ‘shameless’: Amnesty
Amnesty International yesterday accused the Lebanese authorities of relentlessly and shamelessly obstructing the investigation into last year's deadly Beirut port blast.
A year after the August 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods of the city, no official has been brought to justice.
The blast, considered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, was caused by hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a dockside warehouse.
How the fertiliser got there, why it was so poorly stored for years, and what started the fire that blew it up, are questions that the Lebanese probe has yet to answer.
"Lebanese authorities have spent the past year shamelessly obstructing victims' quest for truth and justice," Amnesty International said in a statement.
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