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So were their two desert tortoises, now living as evacuees in my Alhambra backyard.

By late afternoon, roughly a hundred evacuees had taken shelter inside.

He said there are insufficient shelters to accommodate so many evacuees.

Mr O’Hurley flew to the Beirut on Wednesday and had secured a seat for the Belfast-born child on a plane carrying evacuees on Thursday – but that flight took off without him.

Many of the shelters are plagued by lack of maintenance, ill-equipped to handle large numbers of evacuees.