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Lebanon marks four years since Beirut port blast amid regional tensions

No one has been held accountable for the catastrophic explosion that killed more than 220 people.

Protesters are to converge on the Beirut port as Lebanon marks four years since a catastrophic explosion there killed more than 220 people.

Several marches are planned on Sunday to remember the victims of the blast and demand justice as fears of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah hang heavy over the grim commemoration.

Nobody has been held accountable for the August 4, 2020, disaster, one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in history. The blast injured at least 6,500 people and devastated large parts of the capital.

Authorities said the explosion was triggered by a fire in a warehouse where a stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertiliser had been haphazardly stored for years.

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