Beirut explosion: Drone footage captures extent of the damage in the city’s devastated port area

Drone footage captured on August 5 shows the destruction caused by a massive explosion in the port area of Beirut, Lebanon, the previous day. Drone footage was captured by Habib Darwish on Wednesday, along with footage captured by MTV Lebanon which shows the scale of destruction in the immediate vicinity of the blast site. Investigators began searching through the wreckage of Beirut’s port Wednesday for clues to the cause of the massive explosion that ripped across the Lebanese capital. The explosion at