Beirut Port Explosion

[Munter]

Something made a big bang. Check out this video. Suggestion here is fireworks. Whatever it was it'll be bad.

https://twitter.com/allushiii_new/status/129067250...

[MrBarry123]

That is surely not fireworks?

[PopsandBangs]

That's massive. Some videos just surfaced on Twitter/news sites from a distance.... looks like a bloody nuke going off!

[Killer2005]

Munter said:

Something made a big bang. Check out this video. Suggestion here is fireworks. Whatever it was it'll be bad.

https://twitter.com/allushiii_new/status/129067250...

Blimey . I thought that it was the aftermath at first but then it really went bang.

[coolg]

That is an impressive collection of fireworks !!!

[21TonyK]

Thats one hell of a explosion. Absolute horrific to think how many will have been killed by that.

[red_slr]

[Quhet]

More like a weapons dump/store going off than fireworks, surely?

The footage I saw of the explosion showed it dwarfing that building in front of it. Colossal.

ETA: https://twitter.com/AbirGhattas/status/12906714742...

[anonymous-user]

Blimey

[21TonyK]

Second video down...

https://twitter.com/Gladiator_Sr/status/1290671604...

[Gecko1978]

the white flashes did look like fireworks but would munitions do the same.

[Munter]

Quhet said:

More like a weapons dump/store going off than fireworks, surely?

The footage I saw of the explosion showed it dwarfing that building in front of it. Colossal.

This tweet seems to give a fuller view of the big bang. It's just....a huge pressure wave.
https://twitter.com/drapr007/status/12906771080002...

[Killer2005]

https://mobile.twitter.com/borzou/status/129067585...

Another one from further away.

[dukeboy749r]

Bl00dy hell

Thoughts to everyone affected by this.

That second, larger (far, far larger) explosion is just mental. Almost st the life out of me - and no doubt those filming it, too.

[citizensm1th]

I'm no explosive expert but that looks very energetic for gunpowder. That's a big bloody bang.

[red_slr]

Its at the port, just to the right of the building called "port silos".

The area to the right there is a small building but there is also a dock... I suspect its a ship thats gone up maybe?

[rover 623gsi]

apparently immediate aftermath in surrounding area

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1290681803569...

absolutely shocking

[Garemberg]

Bloody hell, that looks thermobaric, Poor folk

[21TonyK]

BBC linking to trial result and a second explosion elsewhere.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656...

[Earthdweller]

Wow