This is an amazing description above . It exemplifies just how vast the damage was from this series of toxic blasts. If you scroll down there is a picture of all the fire and blast destroyed cars.
Smoke
billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled
with new cars to charred remains in northeastern China’s Tianjin
municipality. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP
in Tianjin
| Irish Times | - |
Thousands
of burned-out, brand-new cars huddled in burned-out rows in what used
to be the shiny logistics hub of Binhai New Area in the northeastern
Chinese city of Tianjin.
Chinese port city left reeling in wake of deadly blasts
At least 50 dead and hundreds injured in two explosions, writes Clifford Coonan in Tianjin
Smoke
billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled
with new cars to charred remains in northeastern China’s Tianjin
municipality. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP
in Tianjin
Thousands of burned-out, brand-new cars
huddled in burned-out rows in what used to be the shiny logistics hub of
Binhai New Area in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin.
Behind the shells of the vehicles was a twisted tableau of melted containers from which smoke billowed.
It was never supposed to be like this. The scene,
where at least 50 people lost their lives and hundreds were injured in
two devastating explosions on Wednesday night, looked as if a sadistic
child had taken a cigarette lighter to the toy box.
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Within blast distance of the explosion, residents
were shuffling across pavements coated in broken glass, marvelling at
how all the windows in apartment buildings and cars hundreds of metres
from the explosion were smashed.
We were turned back from the site where the
explosions ripped like a double thunderbolt through this busy city. The
air stank, so we put our masks on, and worried about the fact that
lethal acids had leaked into the water near the site.
Windows were smashed in buildings as far as 1km away,
walls were knocked over, and firefighters were still wrestling with how
to deal with the fire that continued to rage.
Risky methods
Last night the firefighters went back into the zone
where so many of their colleagues – at least 12 at the last official
count – had perished. Because it is a chemical-based fire – one which
threatens two remaining tanks – specialised and risky methods have to be
employed.
On Thursday, authorities mobilised a squad of
specialist, chemical-trained troops to deal with the fires. All day,
social media told the take of the destruction, with many harrowing
videos on Weibo, the Chinese version of the banned Twitter service.
Tianjin, the fifth biggest city in China,
is the largest port in the world in terms of throughput. After a week
in which China devalued its currency amid signs of a weaker economy,
there were questions over whether this explosion could affect the
country’s broader economic health.
Probably not – but it has done nothing to counteract poor sentiment about the fate of the world’s second largest economy.
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