Two Years After Beirut Mega-blast, Lebanon Hits New Lows

The port explosion further scarred the crisis-tested population and accelerated a massive exodus that recalls the flight during the 1975-1990 civil war STR AFP

Crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years Thursday since a massive explosion ripped through Beirut, with victims' relatives planning protest marches as they keep demanding truth and justice.

The portside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands more and decimated vast areas of the capital.