Lebanese Judiciary to Question Ex-Finance Ministers on Blast

Grain spills from damaged wheat silos in the Port of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photographer: Hasan Shaaban/Bloomberg
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Lebanon’s judiciary will question finance and public-works ministers who were in office since late 2013, when the stockpile of ammonium nitrate that caused last week’s devastating explosion was first unloaded at Beirut’s port.