Beirut bride’s wedding video captures horrific explosion
<p>The happy couple were meant to be celebrating their marriage.</p>
<p>Dr Israel Seblani and Ahmad Sbeih were posing for their wedding photos on Tuesday on the streets of Beirut.</p>
<p>Starting off as a perfectly normal day, Dr Seblani posed in a beautiful, white wedding gown in the city’s Saifi Village.</p>
<p>Then all of a sudden, there was a eardrum-shattering noise that came from behind her.</p>
<p>The horrifying sound was the massive explosion which rocked the Lebanese capital, leaving at least 135 dead and 5000 injured.</p>
<p>The couple’s wedding photographer, Mahmoud Nakib, captured the moment it all went down.</p>
<p>"We were filming an outdoor photo session … then we heard an explosion," Mr Nakib said.</p>
<p>"That was the first explosion, we thought that is was far away, we continued filming normally."</p>
<p>But that soon changed.</p>
<p>"In just one second, the sky turned black and we heard the second explosion," Mr Nakib said.</p>
<p>As the explosion took place, an intense gust of wind tore through the square, as captured in the video.</p>
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<p>"The area I was in, within matter of seconds, it went from beautiful place to ghost town filled with dust, shattered glass and people yelling [and] bleeding," Dr Seblani said.</p>
<p>"It was like a nightmare scene."</p>
<p>The shockwave pushed Mr Nakib down the street, he said, nearly knocking him over.</p>
<p>But his camera kept rolling, documenting the chaotic scenes taking place around him.</p>
<p>Dr Seblani, Mr Nakib and the rest of the wedding party headed inside as the blast echoed through the streets of Beirut.</p>
<p>Everyone in the wedding party is doing OK, and no one was hospitalised.</p>
<p>"I thought first of my wife and my daughter," Mr Nakib said thought as he ran for cover.</p>
<p>"I called her to let her know that I'm fine and do not go out.</p>
<p>"And I went live at Facebook to let people know what happened."</p>
<p>The explosion in Beirut wiped out entire city streets and left hundreds of thousands without homes.</p>
<p>It has been linked to a warehouse storing thousands of tons of an unsecured and volatile chemical compound.</p>
