'Lucky to be alive': a couple injured in an explosion in Beirut endured 9 hours of operations

According to the report, a Beirut-based couple, whose apartment is about 2000 feet (600 m) from the site of the massive blast, suffered a total of nine hours of surgery after being injured. Writes about this New York Post. Imad Khalil and ...

Explosion in Beirut: where the mushroom cloud and red smoke came from

About three thousand tons of ammonium nitrate are associated with an explosion that killed more than 130 people, razed most of the Beirut port quarter to the ground and caused untold disasters in the Lebanese capital. What is ammonium nitrate, how often does it explode and why does the explosion ...

Destructive explosion in Beirut: 20 videos of the tragedy filmed by local residents

On August 4, in the capital of Lebanon, an explosion thundered in the port - one of the strongest in modern history, which happened among residential buildings, recalls Liga.net. As of August 6, as a result of a large-scale explosion in the port of Beirut, at least 157 people were killed, about ...

2750 tons of saltpeter exploded in the port of Beirut: it was brought there by a Russian businessman

As of the morning of August 5, as a result of two explosions that occurred on August 4, at least 100 people were killed in the port of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, more than 4 were injured, and several quarters of the city were completely destroyed. According to the authorities, a large ...

A powerful explosion in Beirut: numerous casualties and destruction, the shock wave reached Cyprus

A powerful explosion took place in Beirut ahead of a court verdict in the murder of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, BBC writes. Video footage from the Lebanese capital shows a mushroom-shaped cloud and significant destruction. The explosion took place in the port of Beirut, nearby is also ...

Suicide bombers staged an explosion at the US Embassy in Tunisia: there are wounded

On March 6, two terrorists set off an explosion near the US Embassy in the Buheira district of the capital of Tunisia. RIA Novosti writes about this. It is noted that they were traveling on a motorcycle and activated a “suicide belt” near the building where there were embassy security patrols. IN…

Scientists have recorded the most powerful outbreak in the universe since the Big Bang

Astronomers have recorded the most powerful burst of energy in the universe since the Big Bang. Some experts compare the discovery in importance with the discovery of the first dinosaur bones. Writes about this Lenta.Ru. The explosion took place near a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy located at a distance from the Earth ...

'Like a nuclear bomb': a powerful explosion thundered at a chemical plant in Texas

The authorities announced the evacuation of people from nearby cities within a radius of more than 6 km from the incident. At a chemical plant located in the American city of Port Neches in Texas, two explosions occurred in a day, RBC reports. The first explosion occurred at 1:00 on November 27. IN…

Russian Foreign Ministry called tests near Severodvinsk Russia's response to US actions

The accident that happened near Severodvinsk has nothing to do with the subject of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), said acting. O. Permanent Representative of Russia to international organizations in Vienna Alexey Karpov. “The tests carried out at a military training ground on August 8 near Severodvinsk were associated with...

The explosion near Severodvinsk: doctors are in a panic because of the 'radiation' patients, the Kremlin denies the danger

On August 8, an explosion occurred at a military training ground near Severodvinsk during a test of a rocket launcher. The press service of the Severodvinsk administration announced a short-term increase in the radiation background. But the doctors who brought the victims were not told that the patients were a source of radioactive radiation. In total with contaminated radiation ...

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