Massive Explosion Rocks Area Near Beirut Port…
Local TV Report: Blast Originated From An Area Where Firecrackers Were Stored…
Lebanese Health Minister: At Least 78 Dead And 4,000 Wounded…
Lebanese PM: Explosions Caused By 2,750 Tons Of Ammonium Nitrate Left Unsecured For 6 Years…
Trump: US Military Officials Think The Explosion Was An Attack, Caused By A “Bomb Of Some Kind”…
A massive explosion shook Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, wounding a number of people and causing widespread damage…
Explosion centered around Beirut’s port and caused wide-scale destruction and shattered windows miles away…
AP photographer witnessed people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut…
Local TV stations reported the blast was inside an area where firecrackers were stored…
Update: New video shows what appears to be smaller fireworks going off before the massive explosion…
Update: Unconfirmed Report…Fire Broken Out At Port Which Triggered The Explosion Of A Nearby Warehouse Storing Fireworks…Warehouse Stored The Flammable Chemical Benzene…
Update: Rantingly User “BMF” Comment…Probably fireworks but when I was in Vietnam in 1969, the ammunition dump at Da Nang blew up in a massive explosion that looked like a tactical nuclear detonation. Before the main explosion, there were multiple small explosions from small arms ammunition, grenades, etc. before the main explosion. I wouldn’t discount the possibility of there also may have been ammunition stored in the warehouse…
Update: Unconfirmed Report…Al-Arabiya News: Explosion was in an ammunition warehouse belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization…
Update: Lebanese Health Minister: At least 78 dead and 4,000 wounded…
Update: Israel Denies Being Behind Lebanon Blast…
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Fireworks can be seen clearly in this video https://t.co/Z2DMT0JNbs pic.twitter.com/fXZgMbJ0EV
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BREAKING: Massive explosion rocks area near Beirut port; cause of blast unknown @timourazhari pic.twitter.com/XGfDGwFzEw
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Terrifying video from a guy driving his car while filming the Beirut explosion…pic.twitter.com/0XpfqCw22L
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RAW FOOTAGE: Massive explosion shakes Lebanon’s capital Beirut; no word yet on cause or casualties @AbirGhattas pic.twitter.com/U0OgSxVGZc
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Oh my goodness. pic.twitter.com/kigRLV0bXB
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Looks like at least one warehouse by the port went up. Widespread damage from the blast throughout the city.pic.twitter.com/G2O4VjnbDd
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Moment of #Beirut port explosion during a mass broadcasted online (due to covid-19 situation).This is what Apocalypse looks like! pic.twitter.com/CUvZYSgsKi
The Aftermath Of The Explosion…
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This looks like the end of the world in Lebanon. Shocking first video emerges after #Beirut explosion.pic.twitter.com/pHy3iUIGar
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BREAKING: Massive explosion in Beirut. Footage from the daily star office now in Lebanon pic.twitter.com/2uBsKP5wCH
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Breaking: Video shows the aftermath of massive blast in Beirut, Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/ntgbNbnlRz
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Beirut streets. Everything’s shattered. pic.twitter.com/oDENMLNWui
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This is #Beirut. This is how our hearts look like. Beirut is us, & we’re done here. It’s all over. Hope warlords & world powers feel better now. People died. People are injured. People lost everything. Port is destroyed.
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BREAKING – The port of #Beirut is completely destroyed and nearing collapse following a MASSIVE explosion in #Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/Hk4CnE0vQA
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WATCH: Aftermath of the explosion in Beirut pic.twitter.com/7y8TRDHVbK
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Breaking: Video shows catastrophic aftermath of explosions in Beirut, Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/JWznCEA5rv
Unconfirmed Report: Fire Broken Out At Port Which Triggered
The Explosion Of A Nearby Warehouse Storing Fireworks…
Warehouse Stored The Flammable Chemical Benzene…
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LBCI Lebanon News claimed that a fire had broken out at the port and then triggered an explosion of a nearby warehouse storing fireworks. According to Al-Mayadeen, the explosion occurred in a warehouse storing benzine, a flammable chemical. #beirut pic.twitter.com/LbvxsASKXc