Tag: Lebanon blast

BEIRUT, Lebanon : Lebanon’s Christian Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai has called for an international investigation into Tuesday’s Beirut port explosion. "It is a right for countries that provide Lebanon with generous assistance to know the mysterious causes, and the body that kept this big quantity of explosive material for six years at the most dangerous place in the capital , and the reason for keeping them,” he said during a Sunday Mass. He stressed that “what happened was a crime against humanity." The patriarch hailed Lebanese youth and charities who came...