: The search for the missing people is still going on after the deadly blasts in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
People engaged in relief work are searching for more than 100 people, who have not had any discovery news since the blast.
At least a hundred people died in these blasts on Tuesday and more than four thousand people were injured.
: The entire city was shaken by these blasts in the port area of Beirut.
: After the explosion in the coastal area, there was a cloud of dust and smoke.
: President Michael Eoin said that the explosion occurred because of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate kept in unsafe warehouses.
Ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer in agricultural work or as an explosive.
He has called an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said that emergency should be implemented in the country for two weeks.
Since Wednesday, official mourning has been announced for three days in the country.
: What happened in Beirut?
According to local time on Tuesday, at six in the evening, they were exploded after an incident of fire at the port.
Hadi Nasrallah, an eyewitness of the incident, said that he saw the blaze but he did not expect that the explosion would happen.
I knew something had gone wrong but only then suddenly the pieces of glass from my car, side-by-side trains, shops were everywhere Shattered by coming. The pieces of glass were coming down from the whole building itself. "
Maryam Toumi, a correspondent for the BBC's Arabic service, was interviewing a member of an organization called 'Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy' in Beirut at the time of the incident.
In this video, it can be seen how Mary fell down from her chair due to the power of the explosion. Now they are safe.
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: Echo heard to cyprus
They told that she was feeling the explosion.
"The building in my house was shaking. It seemed that it would collapse. All the windows were opened automatically."
The blast was also heard in Cyprus, an island country in the eastern Mediterranean, 150 miles from where the blast took place in Beirut.
The people there felt as if there was an earthquake.
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Major explosion in Beirut, capital of Lebanon, dozens killed and thousands injured
BBC journalist Rami Ruhayem said that after the blast, the atmosphere of chaos and ambulance sire was being heard everywhere. Traffic was jammed and ambulances had to struggle to reach the injured. Pieces of glass were scattered on the road.
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