How abandoned cargo led to Beirut disaster

By Maria Vasilyeva
Updated August 7 2020 - 5:16am, first published 5:15am
The captain of the Rhosus has explained how the ammonium nitrate cargo arrived in Beirut.
The captain of the Rhosus has explained how the ammonium nitrate cargo arrived in Beirut.

The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut's deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captain, should never have stopped there.