The gigantic explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020 tore through homes, blowing off doors and windows, toppling cupboards, and sent flying books, shelves, lamps and everything else. Within a few seconds, more than a quarter of a million people of the Lebanese capital's residents were left with homes unfit to live in. (15 PHOTOS by AFP, AP, Reuters)
PHOTO PACKAGE: Lebanon Lost Homes
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Sandrine Zeinoun, 34, poses for a photograph inside her destroyed apartment after Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
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Fouad Armali smokes water-pipe in his destroyed apartment at Gemmayzeh neighborhood, which suffered extensive damage from the Tuesday's explosion at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
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Found Armali sits inside his destroyed apartment after Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
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Michel Assad and his dog Pepsi stand inside their home that was damaged in Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon, August 7, 2020.