Beirut Explosion: Iran sends aid shipment to Lebanon

Iran was sending a shipment of humanitarian aid to Leban on Wednesday, following a massive blast in Beirut previous day that killed 100 people and wounded thousands.

explosion — hitting with force of a 3.5-magnitude earthquake — was biggest ever seen in Beirut, a city blasted by a 1975-1990 civil war, bombarded in conflicts with Israel and hit by periodic terror attacks.

Leban's interior minister said it appeared that a large cache of ammonium nitrate in port h detonated.

sudden devastation overwhelmed a country alrey struggling with both coronavirus pandemic and a severe ecomic crisis.

Iranian shipment contained food, medicine, a field hospital and a team of doctors and aid workers, according to Karim Hemmati, he of country's Red Crescent society.