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Live video from Beirut of explosion aftermath (Original Post)
NightWatcher
Aug 2020
OP
What's he say about the second explosion? Another ship was "downtown"?
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2020
#3
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. Jeez.
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)2. Nothing to see here, move along, just "fireworks"
The source of the blast which appeared to occur around the Lebanese capitals port is currently unclear. Cars were left strewn across the surrounding highway. No casualty toll has yet been given but eyewitnesses told LBC television that at least dozens were injured and hospitals were full of injured people.
Lebanons health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/huge-explosion-beirut-lebanon-shatters-windows-rocks-buildings
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. What's he say about the second explosion? Another ship was "downtown"?
OneBlueDotBama
(1,384 posts)4. The Captain was drunk...
didn't make the required course adjustment...