Lebanese protesters say they will rally again after a night of demonstrations in which they stormed several ministries.
One policeman has been killed and more than 170 people injured during the protests.Amid the ongoing protests, Lebanon's information minister has resigned.
People defied dozens of teargas canisters fired at them and hurled stones and firecrackers at riot police, some of whom were carried away to ambulances."The police fired at me. But that won't stop us from demonstrating until we change the government from top to bottom," Younis Flayti, 55, a retired army officer, said on Sunday.
"After the enormous Beirut catastrophe, I announce my resignation from government," she said, apologising to citizens for having failed them. The blast, whose mushroom cloud reminded many of an atomic bomb, left a 43-metre deep crater at Beirut's port, said a security official, citing French experts working in the disaster area.
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