The Canadian Embassy in Beirut is temporarily closed in light of an explosion that rocked that city’s port on Tuesday.
Consular services are still available by phone and email, and the office is slated to re-open at the end of the week.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that “Canadians are thinking of everyone who has been injured and all those who are trying to locate a friend or family member or have lost a loved one. ”
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Al-Jazeera reports that Lebanon is eyeing a state of emergency with more than 100 people now dead, and 4,000 injured.
Those numbers are expected to climb.
The media outlet reports that the cause of the explosion isn’t known, though Lebanese officials have linked the blast to 2,750 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port for six years.
