{"id":199226,"date":"2020-08-05T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=199226"},"modified":"2020-08-05T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:41:31","slug":"lebanese-cabinet-declares-state-of-emergency-forms-crisis-cell-to-follow-up-repercussions-of-explosion-in-beirut-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=199226","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon declares a state of emergency, death toll from Beirut Port explosion rises to 135"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beirut , SANA-Lebanese Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, announced that the death toll from Beirut massive explosion rose to 135.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are also 80 missing and thousands of the wounded are up to now and the teams concerned are searching for them at sea and under rubble&#8221; Hassan said in a televised speech on Wednesday evening&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier,\u00a0Lebanese Cabinet decided to declare\u00a0 on Wednesday a state of emergency for two weeks with a possibility of\u00a0 extension in light of the explosion that hit Beirut port yesterday, asking the military authority to assume responsibility for maintaining security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lebanese Minister of information, Manal Abdul Samad, said at a press conference that the Cabinet adopted the statement of the Higher Defense Council, particularly a declaration that Beirut is a disaster-stricken city in addition to forming a crisis cell to follow up this disaster on all levels and forming an Administrative Investigation Committee to investigate into the reasons behind the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll from the massive explosion that rocked Beirut Port on Tuesday reached to more than 100 and more than 4000 wounded person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manar Salameh\/Bushra Dabin\/ Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut , SANA-Lebanese Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, announced that the death toll from Beirut massive explosion rose to 135. &#8220;There are also 80 missing and thousands of the wounded are up to now and the teams concerned are searching for them at sea and under rubble&#8221; Hassan said in a televised speech on Wednesday evening&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":199227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}