BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s official information company says the prosecutor probing final summer season’s port explosion in Beirut has filed expenses towards the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers.
The decide filed the costs on Thursday towards Hassan Diab and former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, in addition to Ghazi Zeiter and Youssef Fenianos, each former ministers of public works.
All 4 have been charged with negligence resulting in deaths over the Aug. 4 explosion at Beirut port, which killed greater than 200 folks and injured 1000’s.
The explosion was attributable to the ignition of a big stockpile of explosive materials that had been saved on the port for years.
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