Stranded and injured, Lebanese family reels from blast


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Aug 2020

Sami Tlayge sits in his neighbour Rita Faraj Oghlo's home, where she once lived in with her husband and two children before it was damaged in an explosion on the Beirut port, in Beirut, Lebanon, August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Beirut's catastrophic port explosion has demolished Rita Faraj Oghlo's house, left her family stranded and may cost her husband Adel his leg.

Like many Lebanese, they have endured multi-layered suffering since the Aug. 4 blast, which killed 179 people, injured 6,000 and triggered protests against an elite blamed for political turmoil and economic collapse.

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