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Summary

source: https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/1290780414114779137

"First photos emerging from #Beirut Port's #Hangar12 with workers stacking what seems to be the salvaged Nitroprill Ammonium Nitrate which caused the #BeirutBlast"

Fireworks?

  • Beirut explosion: former port worker says fireworks stored in hangar - The Guardian, August 7, 2020
    Dozens of bags of fireworks were stored in the same hangar as thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port and may have been a decisive factor in igniting the explosive chemical compound that fuelled Tuesday’s huge explosion, a former port worker and other sources have told the Guardian.
    In addition, the hangar housed a quantity of fireworks, Shehadi said, which customs had confiscated in about 2009-10 and which he said he had personally seen delivered on a forklift. “There were 30 to 40 nylon bags of fireworks inside warehouse 12,” he said.
    “They were on the left-hand side when you entered the door.
  • Sixteen Port of Beirut employees are arrested over cause of devastating explosion as tragic photo shows the moment firefighters tried to enter Warehouse 12 before store of ammonium nitrate ignited killing at least 145 people - Daily Mail, August 6, 2020
    Many photos, video, showing firefighters at the gate of Warehouse 12. Crackling fire, blackish smoke, apparently on Warehouse 12 video.
    On Tuesday evening a fire that started in Warehouse 9 before spreading to Warehouse 12, where the chemicals were being stored, igniting them and causing the blast.
  • Fireworks were stored in same Beirut warehouse as ammonium nitrate — report - Times of Israel, August 8, 2020
    There have been widespread reports that the fire started at Warehouse 9, which stored fireworks, after sparks from welding work near that warehouse set off the stash. The fire was believed to have spread from Warehouse 9 to Warehouse 12.
    But the claim that pyrotechnical devices were seated right beside the huge pile of potentially highly explosive nitrates added a new level of apparent negligence to mounting evidence that gross mismanagement by Lebanese officials led to Tuesday’s tragic incident.

Storage?

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Source: https://twitter.com/DimaSadek/status/1291486030458224640

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