Over 63 people were killed and 3,000 injured, the health ministry said.

captured the toll of the deadly blast in Beirut that killed dozens of people and injured thousands.

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Lebanon’s health ministry, said that at least 63 people had died and 3,000 suffered injuries in the explosions and fire that shook Beirut on Tuesday.

With the wounded still streaming into hospitals and the search for missing people underway, the figures were likely to go higher.

The secretary-general of the Kataeb political party, Nizar Najarian, was killed in the blast, and among those injured was Kamal Hayek, the chairman of the state-owned electricity company, who was in critical condition, the news agency reported.