World China menaced by explosion: Huge blasts in Tianjin kill at least 17 and injure hundreds

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Hundreds of people have been injured and at least 17 killed after a series of devastating blasts sent a fireball hundreds of metres into the air at an industrial port in northern China.

A shipment of “dangerous goods” in a warehouse went up in flames shortly before midnight local time (1600 GMT), state media reported, causing explosions so strong that they shook homes on the other side of the city and sent flaming debris arching over nearby high-rise buildings.

Hundreds of injured people crowded into hospitals, arriving on foot and by car after emergency services were overwhelmed.

Early Thursday morning China’s President Xi Jinping urged full efforts to rescue those injured inthe blasts, state media said. Xi demanded that authorities quickly control, and extinguish the fire, and “make full effort to rescue and treat the injured and ensure the safety of people and their property”, China Central Television (CCTV) said on its website.

“When the first explosion happened, it felt like a earthquake,” said Chen Bingzhi, who lives about 4km from the explosion site. “The whole building was shaking. I live on the fifth floor and all the windows are broken.”

 
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Shit's intense. Definitely craziest explosion footage I've seen from an accident. Wild shit.
 

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Probably an inside job by the chinese government to fight against rebels or some shit.
 

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I'm happy shit's back to exploding over there.
 

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This is a good video of it. No sound, so it could be better, but holy shit.

Edit: There, that one's more, uh, fun?
 
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Michael Bay just had an orgasm. And the video shows what that looks like.
 

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I've seen the aftermath videos and those cars near the explosion are fried. That's a lot of property damage.
 
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