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- Fire is still ongoing.

- All hospitals in Beirut and Dahyeh are full now.

- Most of the mobile network is down, internet isn't working (barley 140 b/s)
- Lebanon's Electricity offices are fully destroyed.

- Duty free area is fully destroyed

- Grain storage just collapsed.

Note: The damage is solely from the shock wave.
- All doctors in Lebanon and nurses, even the retired are asked to go directly to any hospital.

- CENTCOM just announced they acknowledge what happened and are looking into the matter.
- Head of Lebanon's intellegence and General Security Ibrahim said: "All talks of fireworks is funny, there is unknown explosives and I don't know what before the end of the investigations".
- Ibrahim is saying there might have been in the second warehouse confiscated explosives from a couple of years ago.
- Kataeb's Secretary-General Nazar Najarian is in critical condition and he is in a coma.
- Al Roum hospital is damaged and need people to help evacuate it.

- Head of customs claim there is nitrate in the second depo. First was fireworks.
- Grain silos are burning.

- Al Manar is claiming that the initial fire started by an "electric short circuit"
- According to security sources: the confiscated nitrate was confiscated from a ship few months ago and placed there temporary.
- The nitrate should have been dealt with weeks ago but it wasn't, according to officials.
- Red smoke from the nitrate cloud reached Damascus.

- Presidential palace Windows were destroyed, along with every window in a radius up to 20-25 km
- Cyprus offered Lebanon help

- US state department and WH said they are monitoring the situation.

- High council of defense will meet tonight.
- All ambulances from Lebanon are heading towards Beirut.

- There is more than 5,000 people injuried. Death numbers are unknown.

- Firefighters haven't reached the initial explosion area, people are still under the rubble there.
- Electricity blackout in Beirut.

- Hospitals are asking for blood urgently.
- PM Diab declares tomorrow 5th August as the Day of National Mourning.

- Several Israeli officials confirmed against they have nothing to do with it. It was purely Lebanon security forces's incompetence
- Lebanese Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmi: We have to wait investigations to know cause of explosion, but preliminary explanation indicate highly-explosive materials seized years ago exploded in Beirut Port warehouse 12.

- PM and Minister of Foreign affairs is on the scene.
- Russian embassy was slightly damaged, one employee injuried
- Secretary General of Kataeb just died, after entering a coma an hour ago.
- Tens of Syrians and Palastinians are now at hospitals donating blood.

- Head of customs: " There was tons of confiscated nitrate in that warehouse"
- White house spox: Praying for the safety of the people of Lebanon. The President has been briefed. We continue to monitor the situation closely.
- Several officials from around the world are sending condolences, including Iraq's Sadr.