Posted on 08/13/2015 1:27:49 AM PDT by moose07
At least 44 people are now known to have died, and more than 500 injured, following two major explosions in China's northern port city of Tianjin.
Twelve firefighters were among the dead, China's official Xinhua news agency said as it reported a doubling of the death toll.
Two blasts happened in a warehouse storing "dangerous and chemical goods" in the port area of the city.
The blasts caused a huge fireball that could be seen from space.
Buildings within a 2km radius (1.5 miles) had windows blown out, office blocks were destroyed and hundreds of cars burnt-out.
Images on Chinese media showed local residents and workers fleeing their homes, some of them covered in blood from broken glass and flying debris.
As of 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT), 44 people had died and a total of 520 people had been hospitalised, including 66 in a critical condition, Xinhua reported.
more and pictures at source.
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Inevitable
RIP.
Nice.
Thankfully not located in a town centre.
I see the lessons learned from that where fully implemented in China.....(/s)
it was NOT Islamic terrorists.
was bad Republicans with firecrackers
.............
who believes that?
I’m thinking discarded cigarette end.
The Chinese smoke like it is going out of fashion and tidiness is not high on the agenda.
When was there in ‘95 there was cr@p everywhere. It may have changed....
That drone video of the area is impressive.
Thanks Moose. Just woke up and trying to find info on it.
Poor people.
Why does it sound to me that ISIS and affiliated terrorist groups are going to miss a very large arms shipment?
Morning Gefn.
There is going to be a public enquiry ,apparently.
They have just said that it was a box of explosives being moved about the warehouse complex.
Hmmm.
Two blasts happened in a warehouse storing “dangerous and chemical goods” in the port area of the city.
hazmat ping
Hmmm. They saw this thing from the Space Station.
That’s a very big explosion.
https://twitter.com/xinyanyu/status/631641536720187394
Click on the pic of the 2 apartment buildings. I’d be surprised if anyone in the side facing the blast survived w/o being critically injured. There are whole chunks of the concrete facade missing.
Agnes, you’re a star. That is the view I’ve been looking for.
Those ISO boxes are going to be a headache for someone, eek!
That high rise block was probably 100% casualties by the look of that.
The current figures are set to climb fast, me thinks. :(
And at that time of day, most of those apartments would have had at least someone home.
I doubt we’ll ever get the real numbers from this. Notwithstanding the fact that the Chinese will downplay them anyway.
Gruesome
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