A Massive explosion rocked Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday 4th August 2020 with images of smoke billowing from the city centre floating on social media. Some local TV stations were quoted as saying by Associated Press that the blast was at Beirut’s port.

Shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed