Instagram has since been flooded with sponsored posts offering boats for those looking to exit Lebanon by whatever means necessary.
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Another day, another selfie drama. This time two political foes have been snapped together, and people aren’t happy about it.
A massive car bomb went off late Friday afternoon in Beirut – the first of its kind in four years. Rubble and the twisted, burning wreckage of several cars filled the central Beirut street where the bomb exploded. The blast literally ripped the facades and balconies off buildings. Eight people were killed, and a further 78 injured.
In a disgusting display of cruelty and abuse, captors tattooed a refugee’s forehead after he tried to flee Syria for Lebanon. Click through for the disturbing video, slightly N5FW.