Beirut explosion linked to Russian ship storing ammonium nitrate left in port, called 'floating bomb'
August 06, 2020 at 10:46 AM EDT
Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city's port for nearly 7 years without appropriate security precautions that officials warned was “a floating bomb.”