The CCTV footage of a room in a Beirut home shows two children and a woman with a baby in her arms looking in disbelief at something outside the window.
"Look at how that house is burning," says one of the two children. Suddenly the glass windows through which they are looking shatter and fall on them. One child extricates himself from under a broken glass panel while the woman tries to shield the other child and baby. They cower and stay like that for a few moments before gathering their wits and escaping from the now wrecked room.
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