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From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Massive explosion rocks Beirut, causing thousands of injuries and wide
URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/large-explosion-rocks-port-beirut-154535537.html
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BEIRUT — A "colossal" explosion rocked the port area of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, on Tuesday, injuring thousands and causing widespread damage in a densely populated part of the city. At least 3,000 people have been injured and 50 killed, Minister of Health Hassan Hamad said at a press conference. Those numbers are likely to rise with hospitals filling up fast. Images and videos on social media appear to show large plumes of smoke and damaged buildings in the Middle Eastern country, but the cause of the blast and its exact location were not immediately clear. Lebanon's National News Agency reported the cause may have been a fire in a hangar where explosives were being stored in the Beirut port, on the country's west coast. The head of Lebanon's General Security Agency Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim toured the Beirut port, inspecting the damage and said: "It is not possible to preempt investigations and say that there was a terrorist act." Images and videos posted on social media and verified by NBC News' social newsgathering team, compared with satellite imagery, appear to corroborate that the explosion happened at a warehouse at the Beirut Port Silos. The National News Agency also reported that wheat was being stored in a nearby warehouse. Fire trucks were en route to the scene and evacuation operations were underway, it said. Military and security personnel were also trying to ease traffic to make way for emergency vehicles. The Lebanese Red Cross also confirmed on Twitter that it had more than 30 teams including ambulances responding to the blast and had put out an urgent call for blood donations. "Injuries are definitely within the hundreds," a spokesman for the Lebanese Red Cross told NBC News by telephone. "I cannot give a specific number of casualties at the moment, we are overwhelmed with cases." Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Twitter that the Ministry of Health would meet the expenses of the treatment for the wounded and that the government would provide shelter and support to displaced families whose properties were damaged in the blast. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian offered condolences and said it was ready to offer assistance to its former colony. |
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From: ShakyD, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Massive explosion rocks Beirut - M3.3 on USGS map
URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000b9bx/executive
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M 3.3 Explosion - 1 km ENE of Beirut, Lebanon 2020-08-04 15:08:18 (UTC) 33.901°N 35.519°E0.0 km depth |
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11464
From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Massive explosion rocks Beirut, causing thousands of injuries and...
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Ouch! wonder if that's Hezzbolah / Iranian 'fertilizer'... PM: 'Unacceptable' that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate be in warehouse Lebanon's Prime Minsiter Hassan Diab has said it is "unacceptable" that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were being stored in a warehouse. "I will not rest until we find the person responsible for what happened so we can hold them to account and impose the most severe punishment," the prime minister was quoted as saying by an official Twitter account. "It is unacceptable that a shipment of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate has been present for six years in a warehouse, without taking preventive measures and endangering the safety of citizens". |
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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Massive explosion rocks Beirut, causing thousands of injuries...
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From: Rodney Boulderfield, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: WHAT'S WITH THE RED? ASTROLITE?
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Took a legitimate stab at rebooting this topic on Science board, any takers???????) |
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From: Ece, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: WHAT'S WITH THE RED? ASTROLITE?
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Looks like dried blood. I don't know much about the science of what would make it appear that way though. It's odd. |
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From: Eve (not Ece, oops), [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: WHAT'S WITH THE RED? ASTROLITE?
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