Beirut explosion: the volunteer clearing up the wreckage of her home city

Beirut explosion: the volunteer clearing up the wreckage of her home city

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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up.
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She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ‘there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry

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