Trump says US generals tell him Beirut blast 'bomb of some kind'

US President Donald Trump said US generals had told him the powerful explosions in Beirut may have been caused by a 'bomb of some kind' (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、Breaking Newsとして、Beirut (ベイルート)での大爆発についてのNews記事です。Beirutの現地爆発記事はTwitter等で多数みられますが、米国のTrump 大統領の見方をAFP通信があげています。

Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US generals had told him that the powerful explosions which rocked Beirut appeared to have been caused by a "bomb of some kind."

"It looks like a terrible attack," Trump told reporters at the White House.

"It would seem like it, based on the explosion. I met with some of our great generals and they just seemed to feel that it was," he said.

"This was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. It seems to be, according to them -- they would know better than I would -- but they seem to think it was an attack.

"It was a bomb of some kind, yes."

Lebanese officials have not described the explosions which rocked the capital as an attack.