Massive blast in Beirut

[Trusty]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290681560342069248

 

[VincentHanna]

I wonder if there was any chance of the people in the nearby buildings or cars on the road surviving.....

That was some pressure wave.

You can see the roof being ripped off buildings as it comes toward the camera.

 

[glenimp617]

Nobody is daft enough to have a fireworks factory next to a petrol station are they?

 

[Kenai]

Holy crap that's a big explosion, there's surely going to be a fair size death toll from the nearby buildings/areas, looking at the 'aftermath' video on Twitter above, that's a lot of damage

 

[Thekwango]

People were filming the aftermath of the initial blast. Supposedly a fireworks depot and you can see them going off in the one I posted and this angle too.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290675549887696896

jesus......that dude's gonna be needing a few stitches. those poor sods in the cars are probably not so lucky.

 

[Brizzles]

Wow, thought it was a nuke when i saw the mushroom cloud

 

[Azza]

Nobody is daft enough to have a fireworks factory next to a petrol station are they?

Warehouse 12 is general storage warehouse, so could have anything in there. The large tall building that also explodes is the grain silo which can hold 120 thousand tons.

 

[200sols]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290681560342069248

A bit like the aftermath of the bomb in the sum of all fears.

 

[Raikiri]

They just so happened to be filming it?
That's immense

Any news on what it was?

There's a massive ****ing plume of smoke, I'd be filming if that was coming from Brighton Marina too. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Impressive...fireworks...okkkkaaaaayyyyyyyy

Now I'm no CT, so yeah, it could be fireworks

I mean, they're made with gun powder so they likely had 100s or 1000s of tons of the stuff if that's what it was.

 

[glenimp617]

There's a massive ****ing plume of smoke, I'd be filming if that was coming from Brighton Marina too. Not everything is a conspiracy.



I mean, they're made with gun powder so they likely had 100s or 1000s of tons of the stuff if that's what it was.

It wasn't that long ago a russian fireworks factory went up. There was a hell of a bang, but nothing like this.

It looks like a mini nuke has detonated.

 

[BUDFORCE]

It wasn't that long ago a russian fireworks factory went up. There was a hell of a bang, but nothing like this.

It looks like a mini nuke has detonated.

Yup really does.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Wow, didn’t expect that big. Can’t imagine many surviving that.

 

[Rroff]

It wasn't that long ago a russian fireworks factory went up. There was a hell of a bang, but nothing like this.

It looks like a mini nuke has detonated.

Not quite as impressive as the Tianjin explosion in China but not far off. That doesn't look like fireworks exploding though - quite a few videos on YT of fires and explosions at those.

 

[Tek81]

******* mushroom cloud

 

[Azza]

 

[Jono8]

Jesus, how horrible.

Massive blast

 

[robfosters]

Gonna be a hard job identifying all the victims of that. Some must have been virtually vapourised!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

A fireworks factory? Got to be military ordinance surely?

 

[Dyson]

That is horrendous, I hope the death toll isn't as bad as it looks like it would be.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Video below's taken from someone not more than 10 metres away from the factory and there are dozens of firework or ammunition going off before the big explosion. No idea if it was live or uploaded after but it's mental how close he is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/i3mda7/closest_view_of_the_explosion/

Edit: Already included in the Twitter link above.