Moment of Beirut blast sweeps away bride posing for wedding photos

Eyewitness video shows a bride posing for photographs on her wedding day in Beirut on Tuesday (August 4), just before the massive warehouse explosion happens that killed at least 100 people and injured nearly 4,000. As bride Dr Israa Seblani stands smiling in a square close to the couple’s wedding venue Le Gray Hotel in downtown Beirut, with her bouquet placed on the bottom of her veil, the wedding videographer’s camera pans down to it. The explosion can be heard and the bouquet and the bottom of her dress
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