Year After Lebanon Blast, Children Still In Distress: UN

"One in three families (34 percent) has children still showing signs of psychological distress," said the UN agency for children, UNICEF, citing a July survey of 1,200 families.

A year after a monster explosion at Beirut's port, one in three families in Lebanon have children still showing signs of trauma, the UN said Tuesday. "One in three families (34 percent) has children still showing signs of psychological distress," said the UN agency for children, UNICEF, citing a July survey of 1,200 families. "In the case of adults, the figure reaches almost one in two (45.6 percent)," it added in a report published on the eve of the blast's first anniversary. The August 4, 2020 explosion killed more than 200 people, wounded at least 6,500 others and damaged swathes of the capital.