{"id":264236,"date":"2020-08-05T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264236"},"modified":"2020-08-05T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:30:14","slug":"death-toll-in-huge-beirut-explosion-rises-to-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/05\/death-toll-in-huge-beirut-explosion-rises-to-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in huge Beirut explosion rises to 135"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264071\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutnorth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264071 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutnorth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutnorth.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutnorth-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirutnorth-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: North of Beirut (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=42558010\">Photo by Yoniw\/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The death toll in Tuesday\u2019s huge blast that ripped through Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut has risen to 135, the country\u2019s health minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 5,000 victims were injured and dozens of them are still missing, Hamad Hassan said.<\/p>\n<p>A fire at a warehouse containing explosives at the Port of Beirut led to a massive blast on Tuesday, causing material damage in several neighborhoods of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese President Michel Aoun cited ammonium nitrate as the source of the explosion, which leveled a three-story building and was heard across the city and its suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Defense Council in Lebanon has declared Beirut a disaster-stricken city and announced a state of emergency in the capital for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s explosion deepens woes of the country that has been suffering from a severe economic crisis and intense political polarization for months.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL\u00a0\u2013 The death toll in Tuesday\u2019s huge blast that ripped through Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut has risen to 135, the country\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":264071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264237,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264236\/revisions\/264237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}