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FBU and Amnesty joint call for international investigation into Beirut explosion

HUMAN rights group Amnesty International and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) joined forces yesterday to demand an international investigation into August’s devastating explosion in Beirut.

The blast in Lebanon’s capital three months ago killed 190 people, including 10 firefighters, and injured 6,500.

Now Amnesty and the FBU have produced a video in which British firefighter Holly Ferguson describes the explosion as “the stuff of nightmares.”

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