#23

Could be ammo. That second explosion is just staggering and surely a fireworks factory wouldn’t have that scale of explosives sitting around

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#25

I’m not sure. Given other, similar incidents (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster), it doesn’t strike me as beyond the bounds of possibility.

#26

No need to apologise. Will have to see what happens and hopefully if there was a fire or something they were able to get people clear

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#27

The full video of the explosion looks like an atomic bomb going off. Hard to see there not be a huge amount of fatalities.

#28

I said ‘could be’

#29

Could also be near something like a grain silo, which are notoriously volatile.

#30

I have never seen anything like that. So shocking.

#31

I thought the second one might be a gas tower or something (the big white building) which may have been ignited by the first fire/explosion (the possible fireworks factory)? Whatever it is, it’s something that’s ignited suddenly and completely. :frowning_face:

#32

I meant the storage of fireworks.

#33

Footage inside newspaper building aftermath

https://twitter.com/GhadaaSharif/status/1290667092488986624?s=19

#34

That building is 400 metres from where it happened apparently. Insane.

#35

hoping they’re all safe leafy.

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#37

There was one in Tainjin a few years ago that looked similar (but bigger). Almost doesn’t look real.

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#38

As an aside, will be interesting to see this week whether or not Hezbollah will be implicated in the killing of Rafik Hariri. Remember that. Utter madness.

#39

I just think it’s deeply weird to be trying to link it to that at this stage.

#40

Thanks - I checked with my dad and they live in a coastal town a little outside the city so should be fine, sounds like it’s mostly the port area that was mainly affected

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#41

I don’t know why on earth they are. I know the beeb aren’t great but it’s a pretty odd thing to jump on even by their standards.

#43

Jesus :frowning: Reminiscent of the Halifax Explosion.

#44

I’ve have also seen a few ‘international studies’ or ‘middle east analyst’ types on twitter trying to drag it onto the table when there’s scant details around.

I know most of them are at best hawkish cranks (and at worst, spooks), but you’d hope that the BBC wouldn’t indulge it.

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#45

really?

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