VIA CNN:: CNN's senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman went inside a home overlooking the port where Tuesday’s massive explosion took place in Beirut. The home was inhabited by an elderly couple. “When the blast happened, the walls just collapsed,” wounding the woman who was in bed, Wedeman reports. She is severely wounded and in the hospital. “The bed is still stained with her blood.” Looking out through the walls of the home that have collapsed, Wedeman describes the state of the warehouse that exploded. What was simply dry ground before, Wedeman says, is now a crater, with water flowing into the area. The Lebanese government has committed to conducting a transparent investigation into the explosion, but Wedeman says it is “scant consolation” to the families of those killed, injured and missing. Beirut's governor said in an interview earlier today that at least 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes by the blast.
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