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		</div><p>Massive explosions rocked central Beirut, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors as a giant mushroom cloud rose above the capital.</p>
<p>Witnesses in the Lebanese capital saw many people injured by flying glass and debris.</p>
<p>One said it felt like “a nuclear bomb”.</p>
<p>The blast in central Beirut has caused damage across the city, collapsing buildings and shattering windows as far as 1.2 miles away.</p>
<p>Local Fady Roumieh was stood in the car park to shopping centre ABC Mall Achrafieh, around 2km east of the blast, when the explosion occurred.</p>
<p>“(It was) like a nuclear bomb,” he told the PA news agency.</p>
<p>“The damage is so widespread and severe all over the city.</p>
<p>“Some buildings as far as 2km are partially collapsed.</p>
<p>“It’s like a war zone. The damage is extreme. Not one glass window intact.”</p>
<p>Mr Roumieh said the blast appeared to be centred on the city’s port.</p>
<p>He added that the incident has been compounded by the current political climate in the city amid the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>A photographer near the port saw people lying injured on the ground, and hospitals called for blood donations, but exact casualties were not immediately known.</p>
<p>Miles from the scene of the blast, balconies were knocked down, ceiling collapsed and windows were shattered.</p>
<p>The cause of the blast was not immediately clear.</p>
<p>It came at a time when Lebanon is passing through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades.</p>
<p>It also comes amid rising tensions between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group along Lebanon’s southern border.</p>
<p>Online video showed a column of smoke rising from the port area from what appeared to be an initial explosion, followed by a massive blast that sent up a mushroom cloud and a shock wave racing over the city.</p>
<p>Some local TV stations reported the blast was at Beirut’s port inside an area where fireworks were stored.</p>
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