Wednesday, August 5 2020 11:39

ArmInfo. According to the latest data, three Armenians were killed and about 100 injured in an explosion in the port of Beirut. The Spokesperson of the Armenian  Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan announced this on her Facebook page.

At the same time, she added that the explosion in the port caused  serious damage to both the Armenian- populated areas of Beirut and  the entire city: buildings collapsed, churches were damaged, and the  building of the Haykazyan University was also damaged.

The representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry did not rule out  an increase in the number of victims among the Armenian population of  Beirut, since there are still many missing persons.  "At present,  together with our partners, various scenarios for providing targeted  first aid to the fraternal people of Lebanon are being considered and  evaluated," Naghdalyan said.

To note, a huge explosion occurred on Tuesday evening in the port of  Beirut. As reported later in the Lebanese security forces, ammonium  nitrate detonated from a contraband cargo confiscated from one of the  ships several years ago. All these years, explosives have been stored  in a warehouse in the port awaiting their destruction. Ammonium  nitrate is used as a component of explosives and as nitrogen  fertilizer.

The explosion killed at least 78 people and injured over 4,000. The  blast wave destroyed and damaged dozens of houses, cars, glass were  broken in many districts of the capital. At the scene, the debris is  being dismantled and the search for survivors and dead. The country  has declared four days of mourning.  It became known that the  explosion killed the General Secretary of the Lebanese nationalist  party "Al- Qataib" Nazar Najarian. As the Al-Arabiya TV channel  reported, as a result of the emergency, the politician was seriously  injured, his condition was assessed as critical, the doctors fought  for his life, but in vain.