catastrophe
Grain silos in the port of Beirut have been on fire for two weeks
Smoke envelops the grain silos in the Beirut port. photo
© Hassan Ammar/AP/dpa
They have a great symbolic character – and should still be torn down. But now the grain silos are burning in Beirut.
In the port of the Lebanese capital Beirut, firefighters have been fighting a fire at grain silos for two weeks. On Tuesday, smoke was still rising from the tall silos that many saw as a symbol of the 2020 disaster, a reporter from the German Press Agency observed.