He's weirdly kind of right but for entirely the wrong reason. The Lebanese interior minister is saying that the main explosion was caused by a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate, possibly ignited by the fireworks factory being on fire. So it would look more like a giant fertilizer bomb than a fireworks factory explosion.
Yeah, bombs don't have to be intentional. Btw you can see the firework explosions in the videos so the fact that people so confidently deny that explanation because they've played a game or seen something explode before is a bit weird
He's weirdly kind of right but for entirely the wrong reason. The Lebanese interior minister is saying that the main explosion was caused by a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate, possibly ignited by the fireworks factory being on fire. So it would look more like a giant fertilizer bomb than a fireworks factory explosion.
not just ammonium nitrate, but 2700 tons of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:block-5f29cf378f089d9b758a6c23#block-5f29cf378f089d9b758a6c23
for comparison, the Tianjin explosion was 800 tons and the Texas City disaster was 2200 tons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
Yeah, bombs don't have to be intentional. Btw you can see the firework explosions in the videos so the fact that people so confidently deny that explanation because they've played a game or seen something explode before is a bit weird