The judge leading Lebanon’s investigation into the catastrophic Beirut blast has charged the prime minister and three former ministers with criminal negligence causing hundreds of deaths.
Caretaker premier Hassan Diab is scheduled to be questioned next week at the prime ministerial Grand Serail residence by judge Fadi Sawan, who is heading the investigation. The judge will also question two former ministers of public works and transportation, Ghazi Zaiter and Yussef Fenianos, and ex-finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil.
About 200 people were killed and thousands wounded in August, when a stash of neglected chemicals in Beirut’s port erupted in one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in modern history