PARIS - One Frenchman, architect Jean-Marc Bonfils, has died while a further 24 French people were injured in Tuesday's massive warehouse explosion in Beirut, French government ministers have said.

Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot announced Bonfils's death in a tweet. Junior foreign affairs minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne added on Thursday that, of those injured, three had serious injuries.

French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit Beirut on Thursday.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ((sudip.kargupta@thomsonreuters.com; +33 1 49 49 53 84;))