![FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2020 file photo, French criminal police officers work on the site of this week's massive explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon For many Lebanese, their greatest hope for credible answers about the blast that wrecked much of their capital lies with outsiders. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/Lebanon_Investigating_The_Blast_17004.jpg-e12ad_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2020 file photo, French criminal police officers work on the site of this week's massive explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon For many Lebanese, their greatest hope for credible answers about the blast that wrecked much of their capital lies with outsiders. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
August 14, 2020
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August 14, 2020 1:49 p.m.
Families of Lebanese blast victims plead for outside inquiry
Lebanese survivors of the massive port explosion and relatives of the victims are asking the U.N. Security Council for an international investigation into the blast that wrecked their capital