Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Day 90



By now, we've all seen the dramatic video and pictures of the Beirut explosion. By now, we know that it was caused by some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate unloaded from a disabled vessel in 2014 had been stored in a port warehouse. A welding accident ignited nearby fireworks - stored in the same building due to some unfathomable bureaucratic incompetence - which caused the ammonium nitrate to explode.

The Atlantic magazine ran a series of pictures today that show the disaster and its aftermath not at the large scale of a city-wide apocalypse, but at the smaller, more intimate, human scale where the real suffering occurs. Most of the following pictures appeared in The Atlantic; the last is from Reddit.






 

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