Firas and Zeina survived Beirut's port explosion unscathed but still sustained severe injuries - not in the disaster itself but in the ...
BEIRUT: Firas and Zeina survived Beirut's port explosion unscathed but still sustained severe injuries - not in the disaster itself but in the heavy-handed crackdown on the street protests that followed.
The public fury over the blast - caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate that had languished in a warehouse for years, officials say - reinvigorated a protest movement that had kicked off last year but since faded. He was rushed to hospital unconscious and taken into open-heart surgery, but the doctors could not extract the pellet.
The protest injuries piled more trauma on a country already brought to its knees by the colossal port explosion that killed 181 people, wounded thousands more and laid waste to swathes of Beirut.Zeina, who asked to use a pseudonym, said she considered the use of force against her a"murder attempt".Computer tomography of a patient whose heart who was hit by small lead pellets fired by security forces .
Doctor Selim Nasser, a member of the group, told AFP he was especially concerned about the pellets, which he had not seen security forces use before.
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