I can't remember exactly but I think it was a similar incident like the recent one in Lebanon. Someone was storing 1000+ tons of ammonium nitrate amongst other volatile chemicals and in stupidly high amounts (past legal levels) which contributed to the fireballs which was set off after a chemical fire. Because the firefighters weren't told what exactly was stored there, they sprayed loads of water on huge stockpiles of calcium carbide which reacted and produced acetylene gas hence the extra kick to the booms.
As for the English, I believe they were foreign contractors and their families.
Lebanon looked more like ammonium nitrate laced with TNT [1]. Looked wrong to this ex-amateur-bomber-boy, so I discussed with more knowledgeable people and the TNT explanation was the most plausible for me and smart people. The explosion in the video does not look like explosives at all; could be a transformer blowing up for all we know. (The firework effect could perhaps be molten metal.)
Thanks for the contractor-information.
[1] Bombs are easy. Big bombs not so easy. Good-looking, polished, symmetrical mega-clouds require serious people. That's how I got suspicious, and many more people did, too.
I can't remember exactly but I think it was a similar incident like the recent one in Lebanon. Someone was storing 1000+ tons of ammonium nitrate amongst other volatile chemicals and in stupidly high amounts (past legal levels) which contributed to the fireballs which was set off after a chemical fire. Because the firefighters weren't told what exactly was stored there, they sprayed loads of water on huge stockpiles of calcium carbide which reacted and produced acetylene gas hence the extra kick to the booms.
As for the English, I believe they were foreign contractors and their families.
Lebanon looked more like ammonium nitrate laced with TNT [1]. Looked wrong to this ex-amateur-bomber-boy, so I discussed with more knowledgeable people and the TNT explanation was the most plausible for me and smart people. The explosion in the video does not look like explosives at all; could be a transformer blowing up for all we know. (The firework effect could perhaps be molten metal.)
Thanks for the contractor-information.
[1] Bombs are easy. Big bombs not so easy. Good-looking, polished, symmetrical mega-clouds require serious people. That's how I got suspicious, and many more people did, too.