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The devastation inflicted in Beirut by a massive explosion at the docks is laid bare in this aerial photograph.

More than 145 people were killed and 5,000 injured after the blast on Tuesday, which is said to be one of the world’s biggest ever non-nuclear explosions.

It took place at a hangar where 2,750 tons of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate fertiliser had been stored for years.

Sixteen port and customs officials as well as workers in charge of maintenance at the hangar have been detained but the explosion has prompted protests and international calls for greater political change in Lebanon.

A team from Sheffield University has calculated the strength of the blast based on the videos and photographs and believe the explosion at grain silos was the equivalent of 1,000 to 1,500 tonnes of TNT.

Professor Andy Tyas, an expert on blast protection engineering at the university, said: “If correct, that would mean this explosion had perhaps 10% of the intensity of the Hiroshima bomb.

“Whatever the precise charge size, this is unquestionably one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, far bigger than any conventional weapon.”

Meanwhile, last night police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in the city at the start of a planned protest over the explosion. Thousands of people poured into Beirut’s main square, where they set up symbolic nooses to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesday’s explosion at the Port of Beirut.