At least two more silos at Beirut's port have collapsed, as crowds gathered at the site to mark two years since a large-scale explosion there.
The remnants of the massive silos began to crumble this week, with several collapsing on Sunday and officials saying more of the structures could collapse at any time.
Thousands of protesters marched tearfully in the Lebanese capital, with chants denouncing the government's failure to uncover the truth behind the blast.
Protesters covered their mouths in disbelief as the silos fell.
"Seeing the smoke coming out – especially that I was here during the blast – triggers a very bad memory. It was the same smoke coming from the silos up to the sky," said 31-year-old protester Samer al-Khoury.
The protesters, wearing t-shirts stamped with blood-red handprints, were marching from Lebanon's justice ministry to the city's waterfront and then to parliament in the centre of Beirut.
A large section of Beirut's giant port grain silos, shredded by a massive explosion two years ago, has collapsed as hundreds marched in the city to mark the second anniversary of the blast that killed at least 220 people pic.twitter.com/ORwgaN6zxi
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The blast flattened swathes of the city on 4 August, 2020, killing at least 220 people. One of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, it was caused by massive stores of ammonium nitrate kept at the site in the port and neglected since 2013.
"It's important for me to be here today because it's very important for us to ask for justice and accountability for what happened," said Stephanie Moukheiber, aged 27, a Lebanese woman living in Canada for the last decade, who decided to spend the summer in Lebanon.
"What happened was not a mistake, it was a massacre. It destroyed an entire city.
Several senior officials have been accused of responsibility but, to date, none have been held to account - symptomatic, critics say, of a governing elite hamstrung by corruption and on whose watch Lebanon has descended into a political and economic crisis.
Lebanon's current President Michel Aoun said days after the blast that he had been warned about the chemical stores at the port and asked security chiefs to do what is necessary.
The prime minister at the time also said he had been informed - but no one warned the population about the dangers of the materials. An investigation into the blast has been stalled for more than six months.
In a mass commemorating the victims, Lebanon's top Christian cleric Patriarch Beshara al-Rai said God "condemned" officials stalling the domestic investigation and reiterated calls for an international probe.
