Beirut Explosion: Injured Wife Of Dutch Envoy To Lebanon Is Dead

The wife of Dutch Envoy to Lebanon Jan Waltmans has died

Naija news learnt The 55-year-old women died as a result of the explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least 154 people

Netherlands’ foreign ministry who made the  sad announcement earlier today Saturday 8th of August stated that

“It is with dismay and great sadness that we report the death of our colleague Hedwig Waltmans-Molier. She succumbed to injuries sustained in the massive explosion in Beirut,” a ministry statement said.

Waltmans-Molier was hit by debris from the explosion shortly after returning back to Lebanon from holiday with her husband of 38 years.

“Hedwig was standing in her living room next to her husband when she was hit, sheerly by bad lack, by the explosion,” the ministry said.

Naija New also learnt that she was the only Dutch citizen reported to have died from the explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least 154 and devastating swathes of the capital.