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UK offers aid to Lebanon as ‘rigorous’ probe promised into Beirut blast

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UK offers aid to Lebanon as ‘rigorous’ probe promised into Beirut blast

UK offers aid to Lebanon as ‘rigorous’ probe promised into Beirut blast

Dominic Raab said Lebanon’s prime minister Hassan Diab told him there would bea full investigation into the devastating explosion in Beirut.

A “full,thorough and rigorous” investigation has been promised into the cause of theblast which ripped through Lebanon’s capital as the UK offered medical andsearch and rescue experts to help deal with the aftermath.


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