Rescue workers were looking for signs of anyone trapped in the rubble from two Israeli air strikes that struck central Beirut overnight, amid stifling smoke and screams from residents on Friday morning.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reports that these strikes were the deadliest of the recent escalation in central Beirut, with 22 deaths and 117 injuries.
The head of the Civil Defence rescue team, Youssef Al-Mallah, told the BBC that five people were still missing at the site of the heavier of the two, which is in the Shia neighborhood of Basta.
Al-Mallah stated that the Civil Defence has asked family members of the missing to provide any information regarding their whereabouts.
