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Hungarian technical experts head to Beirut to help following Tuesday’s blast

Gergely Gulyás said that the Lebanese government had requested assistance on Wednesday night and the group left for Beirut yesterday.

 

The Hungarian interior ministry will send a group of technical experts to Beirut to help mitigate the effects of Tuesday’s blast in the city.

Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said that the Lebanese government had requested such assistance on Wednesday night, adding that the experts left for Beirut yesterday.

Gulyás expressed his government’s condolences to the Lebanese people, and said he hoped that an investigation would ascertain that the explosion was not a deliberate act.

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