The powerful explosions that rocked Tuesday by the port of Beirut were 73 dead and for 3,700 injured, according to "preliminary estimates" announced by the minister of Health, Hamad Hassan.

"This is a disaster in every sense of the term," he lamented, interviewed by several television channels while he was visiting a hospital in the capital. "The hospitals of the capital are all full of wounded ", he stressed, calling on them to carry the wounded to facilities in the suburbs.