Saturday, August 15, 2015

known Casualties from Tianjin Blast as of August 14, 2015

Casualties

According to the Tianjin government, more than 700 people were injured by the explosion,[14] many with extensive injuries, mostly from burns and explosive blast injuries. Over a thousand firefighters were on scene, 21 of whom have died.[15] Contact was lost with 36 firefighters, but one survivor was found on the morning of August 14, 2015, the 19-year-old firefighter Zhou Ti.[4][16][17][18][19]
Several reports stated that at least 71 people were severely injured, and more than 50 were killed.[14] The official death toll was reported as 55 by state broadcaster CCTV.[19]


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2015 Tianjin explosions
 
Most of the 700 injured were by glass shards in High Rise apartment buildings when their windows all blew out inwards. I was looking at one video which showed literally hundreds of shards of glass embedded in the walls in one apartment in the high rise.

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