August 23rd Tripoli

Elias Khlat

Lebanon / 2013 / Documentary / 20’0”I1500668

August 23rd Tripoli
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SYNOPSIS

Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday 23rd August 2013, at midday when people were leaving the Taqwa mosque after prayers a car bomb exploded. Seven minutes later, the same thing happened in front of the Salam mosque… More than fifty dead and five hundred injured. This is how the city lived through this double catastrophe.

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