Baby George, born amid Beirut blast, is 'light in the darkness'


  • World
  • Thursday, 13 Aug 2020

Emmanuelle Lteif Khnaisser who was in labour at the moment of the Beirut port blast, holds her baby George at the family home in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, August 12, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

BEIRUT, (Reuters) - Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first moments on camera.

Instead, he recorded the instant the biggest blast in Lebanon's history sent whole windows crashing onto his 28 year-old wife's hospital bed.

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