US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday {that a} devastating blast that despatched shockwaves through Beirut and the area “seems to be like a horrible attack,” suggesting it was a bombing quite than an accident.
Lebanese authorities have started a fire at a warehouse containing explosives on the Port of Beirut led to the huge blast, which leveled a three-story constructing and was heard throughout the town and its suburbs.
Trump prolonged the US’s “deepest sympathies to the individuals of Lebanon, the place reviews point out that many, many people had been killed.”
“Our prayers exit to all of the victims and their families. America is able to help Lebanon,” Trump advised reporters on the White House. “We shall be there to help. It seems to be like a horrible attack.”
Requested by a reporter if he was assured in his evaluation that the blast was an attack and never an accident, Trump stated “it will look like it, primarily based on the explosion.”
