A month after the deadly Beirut port blast, which left the city in tatters, the port caught fire again on Thursday, sparking alarm among the people, who are still fighting to bring back normalcy in the affected city.

Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross said its humanitarian operations risked serious disruption as a fire at Beirut port hit a warehouse containing its food aid, reported news agency AFP.

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“The warehouse on fire is where ICRC stocks thousands (of) food parcels and 0.5 million. Our humanitarian operation risks to be seriously disrupted,” litres of oil, AFP quoted ICRC regional director Fabrizio Carboni as saying.

“The extent of the damage still remains to be established. Our humanitarian operation risks to be seriously disrupted,” Carboni added.

Lebanon’s president said the fire at the port in Beirut could have been an “intentional act of sabotage, the result of a technical error, ignorance, or negligence”.

“In all cases, the cause needs to be known as soon as possible, and those responsible held to account,” President Michel Aoun said, according to his office.

Thursday’s blaze sparked alarm across the capital, where images of billowing black smoke revived memories of Beirut’s worst peacetime disaster just last month on the same dockside.

A month after the blast, rescue teams said there was no sign of life underneath the rubble of a building that collapsed following a massive explosion in Beirut on August 4.

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The search was initiated after sensor readings showed a pulse beneath the rubble from last month’s blast.

The blast that rocked Beirut city centre last month had killed about 190 people and injured more than 6,000.

It had also left several people homeless and seven people are still listed as missing.

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Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who resigned in the wake of the August 4 blast, had said it was caused by 2,750 tonnes of fertiliser ammonium nitrate stored in a portside warehouse for years.

The August 4 explosion ravaged swathes of Beirut and piled on new misery for Lebanese already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.