Beirut blasts damaged UNIFIL ship, badly injured crew: statement
Updated: 2020-08-05 05:22
BEIRUT - Two huge explosions in Beirut's port on Tuesday damaged a ship deployed with a United Nations peacekeeping force and injured some of its personnel, the UNIFIL force said in a statement.
"As a result of a huge explosion that rocked Beirut Port this evening, one of the UNIFIL ships of the Maritime Task Force docked in the port was damaged, leaving some UNIFIL naval peacekeepers injured -- some of them seriously," it said.
AFP
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