laith ballout is in beirut and was a few kilometres away from where the explosion went off.oud was it? it was something of never experience before in my life. quite traumatic. all of a sudden, i heard a small thump, thunder, like in the background and then a few seconds later, the shock wave and just dust, like a sandstorm, and everyone dropped to the ground. an armour opening my eyes and looking at the ground and just seeing dust and rubble just floating in the mall that we were in. and then all of a sudden, glass breaking and then the alarm, likea sudden, glass breaking and then the alarm, like a war alarm, going off and looked up into the sky because the mall had an open sky and just see this huge cloud of red and pink and orange smoke, and, yeah, very scary. were you physically injured? were those around you physically injured? yes, there was people physically injured around me, so the mall had a glass in the storefront, all of it broke and there was blood on the floor. probably from the shattered glass that hit them. there was a lady outside when we left the mall, when