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A massive explosion was heard on Tuesday in a warehouse of explosives, ward No. 12, near wheat silos in the port of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, amid a state of panic among the population.

A big fire broke out in the explosives warehouse, and strong explosions were heard in the place, which reverberated in the capital and the suburbs.

And firefighting teams working to put out the fires rushed to the place, as body parts were scattered in the streets near the port.

And sources pointed out that "the explosion resulted in injuries and damage to homes and cars in a number of Beirut neighborhoods as a result of the explosion that shook the city."

Ambulances took dozens of injured people to hospitals, amid calls for blood donations.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, instructed all hospitals to receive the injured as a result of the explosion, at the expense of the Ministry of Public Health.

A source familiar with the matter said that the initial investigations into the Beirut port explosion indicate "years of complacency and negligence, which is the reason for storing a high explosive material in the facility," which led to the accident that killed more than 100 people on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister and the Presidency said that 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which is used in the manufacture of fertilizers and bombs, had been stored in the port 6 years ago without safety measures.

It is a negligence, the official source told Reuters, adding that the issue of storage safety was brought up to several committees and judges and nothing happened to order the transfer of the highly flammable material or its disposal.

The source pointed to "a fire broke out in the warehouse No. 9 in the port, and extended to warehouse No. 12, where ammonium nitrate was stored."

This was the most powerful explosion witnessed in Beirut, the city that still bears the scars of the civil war that took place three decades ago and suffers from a severe financial crisis rooted in decades of corruption and economic mismanagement.

The Director General of Lebanese Customs, Badri Daher, told "LBCI" television, on Wednesday, that customs sent 6 documents to the judiciary to warn that the material posed a danger.

He added: "We asked to re-export it, but this did not happen. We leave it to the experts and concerned parties to determine the reason."

Another source close to a port employee said that a team that inspected ammonium nitrate 6 months ago warned that if it was not transported it would "blow all of Beirut out."

According to two documents seen by Reuters, Lebanese customs asked the judiciary in 2016 and 2017 to ask the "concerned marine establishments" to re-export or agree to the sale of ammonium nitrate, which was transported from the cargo ship (Rusus) and deposited in warehouse 12, to ensure the safety of the port.

One of the documents mentioned similar requests in 2014 and 2015.

Ghassan Hasbani, former Deputy Prime Minister and member of the Lebanese Forces Party, said: "A local and international investigation must be conducted into the incident, given its size and the conditions under which these goods were brought to the ports."

The Ship Aristide website, a network that handles lawsuits in the shipping sector, said in a report in 2015 that the Roussus, which sails the Moldova flag hoist, docked in Beirut in September 2013 when it experienced technical problems while sailing from Georgia to Mozambique It carries 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate.