Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN
A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.
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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.
Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN
A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.
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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.
Beirut explosion: Large blast near port rocks Lebanese capital - CNN
A massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The source of the explosion was initially believed to be a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The blast sent up a huge mushroom cloud-like shockwave and damaged buildings miles from the port, including the headquarters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and CNN's bureau in downtown Beirut.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire. Large numbers of people were wounded in the blast, authorities said, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital.
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Some saying a fireworks factory. Other speculating a weapons cache. Others think a MOAB was used. Expected the death toll to rise dramatically. Damage is very extensive.
Some of the videos out there you can see a lot of white flashes low at the base of the mushroom cloud some have attributed to fireworks going off. IDK. Just stated what I could gather at the time of the post, mostly from twitter accounts.
That explosion was incredible, I've seen it from several different angles. I wonder if anyone in that building shown next to that explosion is still alive? How horrible for Beirut.
Sometimes I wonder if you have even an ounce of humanity in you.
A mushroom cloud and massive after shock suggests it was more than just fireworks. The damage looks surreal.
I hope 2020 isn't the new normal and we look back and think it was a good year.
It was two stages. There was a giant cloud of gray smoke with the white flashes before the mushroom cloud explosion
I have more humanity than Hezbollah or Iran.
That sounds like a reasonable possibility. But if so, that was a ****load of fertilizer!that looks like a fertilizer storagement before the explosion. Could well have been fertilizer exploding.
Some are speculating that the sea water had something to do with the second stage of the explosion.
I haven't seen any evidence of that.
I think phosphorous reacts pretty harshly with all sorts of water. When I was a wee one we had a local blast some nearby equated with a nuclear explosion when a rail car filled with one chemical or the other at the fertilizer plant got water in it from a rain storm. I heard the explosion but we lived a fair distance away and the plant sits down in a low area with ridges around it so it just sounded like thunder to me.
Then I hope they weren't trying to put the fires out from the first explosion with sea water. oy.
That sounds like a reasonable possibility. But if so, that was a ****load of fertilizer!
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