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‘Screams and blood everywhere’: How a Madison alumna and others helped save strangers after the Beirut explosions

Noted: Nay Hinain was one of the many LebaneseĀ citizens packed the city of Beirut on Aug. 4, rushing to stock up on supplies before the country went into a second lockdown after a rise in the country’s COVID-19 cases.

Hinain, who was born in Lebanon and graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, was picking out nail polish colors with a salon employee when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the nearby Beirut port.