Lebanon's prime minister and his cabinet are set to resign in the wake of the devastating Beirut explosion, reports in the country claim.
PM Hassan Diab will address the nation tonight and one of his own ministers told MTV News that the Hezbollah-backed leader is expected to quit.
The government is under mounting pressure to step down amid public outrage over the blast, with the justice minister already out and the finance minister set to follow.
President Michael Aoun, who has rejected calls for an independent international probe into the explosion, is also facing calls to quit.
Last Tuesday's detonation of more than 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate killed at least 163 people, injured more than 6,000 and destroyed swathes of the bustling Mediterranean capital, compounding months of political and economic meltdown.
Many in Lebanon see the blast as a symbol of corruption and incompetence among the country's elite and protests have broken out in the wake of the disaster.
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