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Holy

Fucking

Shit

My eldest just sent me that

Saw the tweet, came straight here. Holy cow.

That was a firecracker factory?!

That was a fucking big bang. (no gore or owt, just the docks shortly after)



Rumours abound of fireworks storage and a grain silo in the area, neither of which have a reputation for burning in a controlled manner.

Surprised we didn’t that from here!

There’s another video on Twitter from a different angle

Fuck. Me! I'd already seen the article on the news but was not expecting that!

Local news saying 10 dead, I reckon you can stick two 0’s on that.

Apparently confiscated explosive material was stored in that area.



Seen that also stated by a BBC foreign language correspondent.

Yeah, there’s a few different angles all the explosion, i guess because it was burning first and each are as incredibly scary as each other.

Genius storing explosive material in a major city. Then again that place is run by Hezbollah isn’t it...

The most amazing thing for me is seeing the debris rise off the ground - I thought that was just a Hollywood bollocks special effect!

Wow, that’s one hell of a lot of energy!!

Dave!

This thread is barmy. Poor fcukers.

Unbelievable destructive power to produce that sound level so far away. I knew it was coming but it still made me jump.

Friend's husband is Lebanese. He's from Beirut. Family is safe, they're still tracking down friends. Awful situation.

Apparently it could be heard 150miles away in Cyprus.

Simon wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:59 pm Apparently it could be heard 150miles away in Cyprus.

Similarly, I understand it was somewhere in the region of a 5 on the Richter scale, which is pretty fucking mind boggling.