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The huge explosion at the port of Beirut created a crater 43 meters deep, a Lebanese security source said on Sunday, citing assessments made by French pyrotechnics experts dispatched to the field.

A Beirut judge has ordered the detention of the Lebanese customs director and a director of the capital's port after the double blast that ravaged the port on Tuesday evening, the Lebanese national news agency reported on Friday.

The European Union announced Thursday that it had released 33 million euros to finance first emergency aid for Lebanon and mobilized material resources, including an Italian hospital ship, to help relief efforts in Beirut, devastated Tuesday by two explosions.

At least 16 officials from the Port of Beirut and customs authorities have been taken into custody as part of the investigation into the deadly and devastating explosion on Tuesday of a warehouse containing tons of ammonium nitrate, the prosecutor said on Thursday. military.

2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse would be responsible for the explosion in the port of Beirut. But what do we really know about this highly explosive substance?