There is a “good chance” of finding survivors of the Beirut port explosion, especially a group believed to be trapped in a room under the rubble, a French rescuer said Thursday.

“We are looking for seven or eight missing people, who could be stuck in a control room buried by the explosion,” said a colonel leading a rescue team that arrived in Lebanon late on Wednesday.

“We think there is a good chance of finding… people alive,” he told French President Emmanuel Macron as he surveyed the scene of Tuesday’s
explosion that killed more than 100 people.

Source: AFP