Hungary Embassy Damaged in Beirut Blast, No Hungarian Casualties Reported

MTI-Hungary Today 2020.08.05.

The Hungarian embassy in Beirut was damaged but no Hungarian casualties have been reported in the blast that shook the Lebanese capital on Tuesday afternoon, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Tamás Menczer, a state secretary of the ministry, in the statement extended the ministry’s sympathies to the families of the victims and to those injured. According to reports, more than 100 were killed and at least 4,000 injured in an explosion in the Beirut port, a site of several warehouses for chemicals.

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The employees of the Hungarian embassy are unharmed and ready to aid Hungarian citizens, Menczer said.

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