The explosion in Lebanon yesterday. (Fr Samer Nassif)
An emergency help of £226,000 is to be rushed out to Beirut by ACN in the wake of the huge explosion yesterday (4th August).
At least 100 people were killed and 4,000 others were injured when 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse exploded.
Speaking from Beirut, ACN project partner Father Raymond Abdo told the charity: “The explosion felt like an atomic bomb with red smoke everywhere and huge damage.”
ACN Lebanon expert Father Samer Nassif, said that the Christian zone of Beirut was “completely devastated”, with at least 10 churches destroyed, 300,000 people homeless and many others suffering, with livelihoods “totally destroyed” by the blast.
He said: “Yesterday in one second, more damage to the Christian quarter of Beirut was done than throughout the long years of the civil war.
“We have to build it again from the ground up.”
Aid to the Church in Need is appealing for prayer for the victims and their families.
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Source: Aid to the Church in Need