BEIRUT, Lebanon — Alerted by the sounds of a disturbance at the nearby port, Lebanese fashion designer Amine Jreissati closed his ground-floor store and headed up to his home, one floor above the showroom, to turn on the TV news. Three minutes later he was thrown to the ground, the windows and doors blown out, as the second of two explosions rocked the Lebanese capital.
The blasts, believed to be caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate…