Life-long Beirutis become displaced in their own city.

Dispatch: ‘How can I rebuild my home?’ Life-long Beirutis become displaced in their own city

‘Waiting outside a Beirut hospital to collect his father’s body, Mohammed Sayed, said he had no idea how he would carry on’

When Yusef Karam rushed back to the building that has been in his family for the past 70 years, he found destruction: his cousin had died when glass lodged into his face, the tenants of his 20 apartments were fleeing the ruins of their homes and the building that his father built was destroyed.

“It is a complete disaster,” he said. Three days after the blast, 60 volunteers were still working to remove the debris that was piled high outside the building.

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