Beirut explosion: Ammonium nitrate was impounded in 2014, reports say - Business Insider

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2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate was impounded in Beirut's port after it was seized from an abandoned ship in 2014, years before the explosion

2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate was held Beirut's port for six years after been seized from an abandoned ship, state media reported officials as saying.

Not long after the blast, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said the blast came from a "dangerous warehouse that has been there since 2014."Damage at the site of Tuesday's blast on August 5, 2020.The defense council named the MV Rhosus as the ship that brought the ammonium nitrate to Beirut, LBCI reported.handled by Beirut-based law firm Baroudi & Associates also names the MV Rhosus, and describes how its cargo apparently came to be at the city's port.

"Shortly afterwards the vessel was abandoned by her owners after charterers and cargo concern lost interest in the cargo," the report by Baroudi & Associates said. Baroudi & Associates said that it took on a legal case to force authorities to let the ship's crew go home "given the 'dangerous' nature of the cargo."

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A likely story.

We will need more evidence that this is actually what happened like a 'Article' from '2014' with visual evidence like a 'Picture' or something.

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