As Beirut digs out, anger grows at authorities over blast
(WorldNews Environment)

By Ellen Francis | Reuters BEIRUT – Walid Assi was cooking at a Beirut pizza joint on Tuesday night when a huge blast wave pushed him down. The ground beneath him shook. He saw a flash of white. The roof caved in. “We can’t believe we got out of this alive,” the chef told Reuters in a central district of the Lebanese capital. “People were bleeding, lying on the ground, running around in the streets…It was like a nightmare.” Staff stood aghast near the restaurant the morning after a massive warehouse explosion a few miles away at Beirut port, which investigators blamed on negligence. Once the shock subsided, Assi said, the next feeling was anger....