Learning of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, the Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on August 9 issued a statement on the incident, at a proposal of Vietnam.

More than 80 flights have been operated so far, bringing home safely more than 21,000 Vietnamese citizens with majority of them were people under 18, pregnant women, elderly people, the ill and those in challenging circumstances, from some 50 countries and territories, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said at the ministry’s regular press conference on August 6.

yond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble.

Two huge explosions rocked Lebanon’s Beirut capital on August 4, killing 100 and wounding nearly 4,000, including a Vietnamese citizen, according to VNS. 

Huge flames engulf the whole area, the nearby port is flattened, deaths and injuries flooded local hospitals after the incredibly massive and out-of-expectation mushroom blast.