Author: Staff and wires, USA TODAY

Lebanese President Michel Aoun says there are two possibilities behind Tuesday’s blast – either negligence or “external intervention” by a missile or a bomb.

At least 10 times in 6 years, authorities from Lebanon’s customs, military, security agencies and judiciary raised alarm that a stockpile of explosive chemicals was being kept.

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Lebanon and warned that without reforms the country would “continue to sink.”