yeah I imagine that person lost their lives, must have been taken from a live stream
Massive blast in Beirut
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yeah I imagine that person lost their lives, must have been taken from a live stream
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Must be surely.
Explosions are funny things - the way the blast unfolds as it hits various things can result in close by areas with very different pressure, etc. sometimes the pressure will even go up and over stuff close by then decimate a lot of stuff in the middle ground, etc. etc. it isn't impossible someone close by might survive if they aren't directly in the path.
Live stream is a far more likely explanation though.
Possibly, potentially a bit morbid if so, thinking that person possibly died a matter of seconds later
Destroyed several hospitals as covid cases hit 5k in a day
https://twitter.com/rvalentwit/status/1290690324713660417?s=20
https://twitter.com/rvalentwit/status/1290690324713660417?s=20
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The explosion is just odd though, even the Ukraine weapons depot explosion looks similar to Tianjin
The explosion in Lebanon looks like nothing I've seen on youtube before
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What was the cause of it?
Fire
One of the recent big explosions in Russia looked similar.
The close up videos look a lot like small arms cooking off more than fireworks though impossible to be sure. The big explosion at a guess is probably more than one thing - looks like some kind of commercial bulk chemical (possibly fuel, maybe firework raw materials) mixed with possible artillery shells or something going boom at the same time.
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Fireworks filled with dynamite , Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. Impressive.
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"The streets of East Beirut lay in apocalyptic ruin even four kilometres from the epicentre of the blast. Every building in between had lost some if not all of its windows. Huge shards of glass covered roads, some jagged pieces had ripped through cars. Trees were shredded, and pools of blood were commonplace. Blood trails lead to cars, and motorbikes that had sped the injured away to clinics or hospitals that could not cope with the dead and maimed."
Militia who'd be the target of the likes of Israel, etc.
On a related note https://twitter.com/IntelTweet/status/1290127034195120128 Israel has had some pretty heavy surveillance in the area over the last 24-48 hours - coincidence? (it isn't unusual for them to have some surveillance in the area as a normal thing - though the recent spike in activity could be related to ongoing political events, etc.).
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