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Beirut’s Bloody Explosion

nurses resuscitating the victims; the injured brought in by the dozens; the emergency unit turned into an operation theatre; more injured piled up in the corridors; the morgue full and the number of deaths rising; family members searching for their missing loved ones. The blood bank ran out of stock after only an hour. The hospital was no longer able to receive any casualties. Ambulance crews were directed to other hospitals outside the capital. Even the patients

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