How do you puncture NINE contianers? Do you have Mr. Magoo driving a forklift on the docks?
It was no accident.
An explosion would obliterate any evidence.
The “how” is conspicuously absent from the news item.
I heard on the way in from a local that only 4 of the nine were punctured. For some reason that doesn’t make me feel better.
Morehead City, N.C. — Nine drums filled with an explosive compound were punctured by a forklift early Tuesday as they were being unloaded at the state port in Morehead City, prompting officials to close the port.
Morehead City Mayor Jerry Jones Jr. said the 50-kilogram drums contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate. Also known as PETN, the material is used in plastic explosives and as a drug to treat heart conditions.
Appears the 'containers' were drums.