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| Uzbekistan explosion felt 20 miles away hits international airport: Mushroom cloud fireball hundreds of feet high 'triggered by detonating car batteries' kills one and injures 160 |
| 2023-09-28 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A powerful explosion in the capital city of Uzbekistan which was reportedly triggered by detonating electric car batteries has killed one person and injured 160 more. The blast inside a huge customs warehouse close to the Tashkent International Airport could be heard 20 miles away, with nearby buildings destroyed and untold damage caused to the airfield. A 15-year-old boy was tragically killed after a frame collapsed on his head as a result of the explosion. It is unclear how many people were in the warehouse when it exploded but authorities say 163 people were injured. Shocking footage shows the impact of the 2.43am explosion as a fireball erupted hundreds of feet high lighting up the night sky of the ex-Soviet republic. Initial reports suggested the raging inferno had been caused by a plane crash, forcing the authorities to deny this was responsible for the thunderous explosion that shook much of the city. The Uzbek Interior Ministry was initially reported as saying 'lightning struck a warehouse where electric cars and batteries were stored, causing a massive explosion and fire in Tashkent', said a report. Later there were doubts that lightning had been a factor in the explosion. Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse, causing the destruction of the building in the shock wave, reported Mash media outlet. There are suspicions explosives were also present in the Inter Logistics LLC warehouse given the scale of the blast, but this was officially denied. Sixteen separate fire teams were seeking to extinguish the enormous blaze which covered more than 32,000 square feet. Related: Uzbekistan: 2023-09-26 Daily Evacuation Brief | September 26, 2023 Uzbekistan: 2023-09-25 From Uzbekistan through ISIS to the 'land of freedom' Uzbekistan: 2023-09-10 Heaven of Foreign Militants: The Taliban Are Extensively Hosting Extremist Groups Related: Tashkent: 2023-09-24 Kadyrov demanded to rewrite the chapter on the deportation of peoples in the school textbook Tashkent: 2023-08-14 In Donbas, Russia repeats 80-year-old liberation Tashkent: 2023-07-20 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 19th, 2023 Related: Electric car batteries: 2022-10-19 There's lithium in thar hills! Great 'white gold' Rush in Nevada sees more than 17,000 mining claims for the precious metal used in electric cars and smartphones... but it's all on tribal land Electric car batteries: 2022-02-05 Outgoing Chilean President Pushes for Last-Minute Lithium Sales |
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| Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-28 14:50 |
| #2 "Is Tashkent burning?" |
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