"I’m destroyed": Syrian father loses daughters and wife in Beirut explosion

As Syrian father Ahmed Staifi rushed home after a huge blast rocked Beirut last week, he heard his daughter calling out from beneath the rubble of their apartment.

"I came to see my family, and I found this. One of my daughters was yelling 'Dad, Dad I don't want to die,'" recalled Staifi, whose family had escaped Syria's war around six years ago.

She survived, as did another child who remains in intensive care. But his youngest and oldest daughters - Jude and Latifa, aged 13 and 24 - did not.

His wife was also killed as a cloud rose into the sky from a warehouse explosion at Beirut port, sending shockwaves across Lebanon's capital.

It reduced the three-storey building where Staifi's family lived into slabs of concrete and twisted metal.

His wife had fled relentless bombing in Syria for refuge in Lebanon, where Staifi made a living as a labourer - only to die in the biggest explosion to ever hit Beirut.

"My wife had called me and said Ahmed, I'm fleeing the war and coming to you. Death followed her here," he said.

The explosion, which killed at least 163 people and injured 6,000 more, demolished entire neighbourhoods of Lebanon's capital in an instant.

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