Wedding shoot captures on-ground impact of Beirut blast

There is no shortage of videos that captured the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon that claimed 135 lives and left thousands injured. The scene is mostly the same: captured from afar, a plume of smoke is seen followed by a massive eruption that blankets the surrounding buildings.

Now, a clip featuring 29-year-old Lebanese bride Israa Seblani offers a different perspective, one that captures the terrifying on-ground impact of the blast. Seblani is seen posing for her wedding photoshoot when a shockwave nearly topples her off her feet. Debris litters the ground as the photographer rushes to safety along with Seblani and her crew.

Per Reuters, Seblani is a doctor in the United States who arrived in Beirut three weeks earlier for her wedding. She and her now-husband were in shock but unscathed, even trying their best to continue with the celebration.

‘My husband told me to continue, we can’t stop. I was like okay, why not, we continue. I was not living the moment actually, I was like walking, my face was smiling, my lips were smiling, that’s it, not more. Then we went to have a dinner’.

Seblani also helped to check on those injured nearby, before heading to safety herself. Prime Minister Hassan Diab blamed the blast on a cache of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive material, that had been stored ‘without preventive measures’ at a port warehouse for six years.

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