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Beirut blast left Brit ex-pat fearing he'd gone blind as blood ran into his eyes

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A British ex-pat said his eyes filled with blood leaving him fearing he'd been blinded as the devastating Beirut chemical blast erupted.

Andy Kemp was half a mile from the docklands where the explosion - one fifth the power of a nuclear bomb - erupted before decimating half of the Lebanese city.

The 58-year-old was sitting at his second-floor office desk when the shockwave struck, sending glass into his face and neck as he was flung across the room - with blood running into his eyes.

A shard of glass had narrowly missed his jugular vein. He said he thought it was a terror attack and with his office - where he runs an environmental firm - completely destroyed he staggered outside to find "hell on Earth". "I’d never experienced such noise and

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