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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