Beirut explosion news – latest: At least 100 dead and 4,000 injured as Lebanon port officials recount warnings ammonium nitrate stockpile would 'blow up entire city'

Residents of Beirut have awoken to devastation after huge explosions at the city’s port sent shock waves across the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people and injuring thousands.

President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said the cause of the blasts was 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilisers and bombs, which had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures. Three days of mourning have been declared.

It came as documents unearthed by Al Jazeera showed custom officials had warned of the “serious danger” posed by the ammonium nitrate stockpile at the port years before the explosion on Tuesday.

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