Well said Freddie. Something like this can leave people speechless and distressed as they deal with such horrors and shock in their own time and as best they can.
@icyfroth wrote:It surprises me no-one's commented on this latest world crisis.
Are wereallyl so insular on this forum? Considering we have such a large percentage of Lebanese-Australians in our country?
"A massive explosion has rocked Lebanon's capital Beirut, killing at least 78 people, injuring almost 4,000, flattening much of the port, and sending a shock wave that damaged buildings across the city.
It is the most powerful explosion in years to hit Beirut, a city on the Mediterranean Sea home to roughly 2.2 million people, which is already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections.
At the scene, the Governor of Beirut, Marwan Abboud, told Sky News Arabia he had come looking for a team of firefighters who disappeared in the explosion.
"This scene reminds us of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he said.
"I haven't seen massive destruction in my life on this scale. This is a disaster, a catastrophe, nothing but a national catastrophe.
"The size of Lebanon's massive explosion that killed dozens of people was likely exacerbated by the presence of almost 3,000 tonnes of a chemical commonly used as garden fertiliser.At least 100 people are dead and thousands are injured after Lebanon's capital Beirut was rocked by a blast so big it was registered as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake.The exact cause of the blast is not yet known, but Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab said the explosion occurred inside a warehouse that was storing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate."Why would any country store so much explosive in one place?
I just heard on the news there is a much larger amount of ammonium nitrate stored at a facility in Newcastle here in NSW.!!!!
"The deadly Beirut blast that killed more than 100 people has driven fresh calls for a large ammonium nitrate stockpile and plant in Newcastle, storing up to four times the amount reportedly detonated in the blast, to be relocated away from residents."
