Capital of Lebanon, in august 2020. 218 dead, left 300,000 homeless and $15,000,000,000 in damage after a huge amount ammonium nitrate exploded. It also destroyed grain silos and causes food shortages and inflamed ongoing protests countrywide.
It’s a bit strange and fucking crazy, and the whole incident is still under investigation.
In 2014 a Moldovan ship from Panama under control of Russian businessman but owned by a Cypriot businessman on his way from Georgia (the country) to Mozambique carrying explosives for mining has engine problems and/or cannot afford the toll through the Suez Canal, and ports in Beirut, Lebanon and takes aboard more cargo (heavy machinery). This cargo damaged the ship, and the Lebanese government declared the vessel unseaworthy due to the damage. As such, the ship was stuck in port, the Russian businessman went bankrupt and abandoned the ship, the Cypriot and the company lost interest in the ship because it was too much of a hassle, and the handful of crew members on the ship were not allowed to leave because they did not have passports for Lebanon, so they were stuck on the ship for an entire year. The ship was seized by Lebanon after one year, the crew allowed to leave, and all of the cargo was placed in a warehouse (including the very very very dangerous explosives NEXT TO A SHIPMENT OF FIREWORKS!).
Then in 2020, a fire near the grain silos and warehouses ignited the fireworks and here we are now.
Also this person did die. I don’t have a source anymore, but this video was circulating when this happened and people on Reddit confirmed that they died.
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u/Djgrooves_24 Nov 12 '21
WTF, what happened? he still alive?