Explosion in Tianjin leaves at least 50 dead, more than 700 injured

The blasts, at a warehouse storing toxic chemicals in Tianjin, a city in north China, and has left at least 50 dead with another 700 injured. The explosion has also destroyed tower blocks and burned out thousands of cars.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 13 August 2015.

The dead include twelve firefighters while 36 of their colleagues are still missing.
Tianjin is one of China's most important industrial centers, and one of the busiest ports in the world and President Xi Jinping has promised a thorough investigation into the events and agreed to make the disclosures public The explosions occurred in Tianjin's Binhai New Area which is a vast industrial zone and houses car factories, aircraft assembly lines and other manufacturing and research firms. There were a number of blasts and broken and buckled shipping containers lay all around the area.
The intensity of the blast was such that windows had blown out and office blocks were destroyed for a radius of 2-Km. The impact of the blasts was felt several kilometres away, and was detected by a US Geological Survey monitoring unit in Beijing 160-Km distant.
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