Beirut explosion: Family grieves for paramedic as the search for bodies goes on - Sky News

Almost a week after the catastrophic blast, hundreds of families are still waiting for the news they already know.

Sahar Fares was killed in the blast, while responding to the fire - a paramedic in a team of firefighters?

It's such a huge loss.

It's such a huge loss.

A group photograph was taken just as her unit responded to the fire at Beirut port.

You can tell by their smiling faces that they certainly had no idea they were rushing towards a blast that would be as powerful as an earthquake.

Her sister, Maria, pulls out her phone and shows me on an aerial photograph - taken before the explosion - where they found her sister's body.

Sahar was on a video call to her fiance reassuring him she was okay and that he should not worry about her when the first blast happened and she attempted to run to safety.

She's working for the country, she's working for the nation," he raged.