Lebanese rescue workers dig through rubble looking for survivors of the powerful blast that shook the capital Beirut
The wreckage of a ship is seen following the explosion at the city's port. President Michel Aoun said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilisers and bombs, had been stored for six years at the port without safety measuresA destroyed silo is seen amid the rubble and debris following the explosionResidents said glass was broken in neighbourhoods on Beirut's Mediterranean coast to suburbs several kilometres away
The damaged entrance of Najjar Hospital in Al-Hamra area as people injured in the blast arrive for treatmentA migrant worker reacts in shock; some residents thought an earthquake had struckThe blast killed at least 100 people and injured nearly 4,000. The death toll is expected to riseThe explosion was the most powerful in years in Beirut, already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections
