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People gather in the street at the site of explosion in Al-Musharrafiya area, in Beirut's southern suburbs. An Israeli drone struck a Hamas office killing four people, Lebanese state media said. IMAGES
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
Lebanese protesters march in the capital Beirut to mark three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the city. IMAGES
Images of the site of the August 4, 2020 blast at the Beirut port as Lebanon's marks three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the Lebanese capital. Still nobody has been held to account as political and legal pressures suspend the investigation. IMAGES
Eight more grain silos collapse at Beirut's port after succumbing to damage from the devastating 2020 explosion -- the third major collapse in a month. A cloud of dust rose over the port after the collapse, which brought down the last of the northern block of silos that was more heavily damaged in the blast, and where a fire had been burning since July. IMAGES TO COMPLETE: VIDI32GX93J_EN
The northern section of the grain silos, partly destroyed by the 2020 Beirut port explosion, collapse. It is the third such incident this month. The eight towers that came down were the last remaining part of the structure's northern bloc which sustained the most damage during the explosion. IMAGES
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