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After Beirut blast, workers beg to leave
Aida Merhi, a resident of the badly-affected Karantina neighborhood of the Lebanese capital, shows her damaged house to the director of Medecins du Monde's (MDM) mental health programme on August 11, 2020, follow this month's earth-shaking explosion which killed more than 170 people and wounded more than 6,000. - MDM or Doctors of the World, an international charity, spent several days in the levelled Karantina district, overlooking blast site. Its staff knocked on doors in the area to offer residents free psychological support. In the first days after the explosion, residents were too busy seeking medical treatment or clearing debris from their homes. But as a kind of normality slowly returned, they seemed more ready to speak, Jouane told AFP. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Beirut faces mental health crisis after blast
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on August 21, 2020 shows an aerial view of the flattened warehouse at the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut next to the crater left by the explosion at the other warehouse that housed a huge cache of ammonium nitrate and which ravaged the city in early August. (Photo by - / AFP)

Blast shatters taboos around Hezbollah
TOPSHOT - Sama al-Hamad, 6-year-old Syrian girl who lost her left eye in the August 4 cataclysmic explosion, points at the blast site from the roof of her damaged house in Beirut's Mar Mikhael district on August 16, 2020. - The powerful August 4 explosion that killed 177 people and devastated swathes of the Lebanese capital also left thousands wounded, mostly from flying shards of glass. At least 400 people suffered ocular injuries, more than 50 required surgery, and at least 15 were permanently blinded in one eye, according to data compiled by major hospitals in and around Beirut. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

'Vision from hell': Losing an eye to the Beirut blast
The wreckage of a car is removed from Beirut's Gemmayzeh neighbourhood on August 17, 2020, following a cataclysmic explosion that ripped through large parts of Lebanon's capital. - The August 4 explosion was caused by hazardous material left unsecured at the port for years, despite warnings over its danger, a fact that further enraged Lebanese who already saw the political class as incompetent and corrupt. (Photo by - / AFP)

Beirut blast prompts new exodus
TOPSHOT - Diggers remove earth at the blast site next to the silos at the port of Beirut on August 16, 2020, in the aftermath of the massive explosion there that ravaged Lebanon's capital. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon faces 'biggest danger', needs elections, says patriarch
TOPSHOT - A Lebanese man talks on the phone while seated by the rubble of a destroyed traditional building in the Gemmayzeh neighbourhood, on August 12, 2020, following last week's cataclysmic port explosion which devastated the capital Beirut. (Photo by - / AFP)

Beirut blast conspiracy tales abound
TOPSHOT - A Lebanese protester hurls rocks at security forces across a burning barrier amid clashes in downtown Beirut on August 11, 2020, following a huge explosion that devastated large parts of the capital. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Beirut blast adds new wounds to old scars
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Lebanon govt resigns over blast fallout
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