Hello, I'm Tamerson Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Coming up, the massive explosion in Beirut last week left more than 200 dead and billions of dollars worth of damage. But what's next for the businesses who lost everything?

It was an absolute nightmare.

I can't describe it.

Of course, for business owners, all our houses are gone,

and the office is gone, so everything's gone.

And how did a rusty old ship end up dumping tons of explosive material in Beirut's port?

When you combine a poorly regulated shipping business with a dysfunctional state like Lebanon,

then it is perhaps no accident that something like this happened.

That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. It was I can't explain, you know, as if you're watching a movie.

Every place is blood and death and injured people.

Yeah. Every place is blood and death and injured people. Eileen Camacion was having a team meeting with her staff

when she saw a fire break out at the port across the road.

It was the first day of reopening her restaurant, Myrieg,

after the coronavirus lockdown, brought the city to a halt.

I took my phone to go out and to take some pictures. And my team called me that you don't know

what's going to come, come over inside and close the door. So I was just taking the video and I saw

the mushroom. I don't remember how I came in the office, but I remember I woke up

giving CPR on my financial controller and stopping his bleeding. We were so lucky not to have any

casualties, but we had 25 injuries and two major. One, my first accountant was in coma for three

days. He lost a lot of blood.

My financial controller is still in ICU. He might losing his eyes. I only, thank God, I only

lost my right ear. And I have some bruise and some cuts, but nothing major. Nothing is

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