An explosion at a warehouse in the Port of Beirut on Tuesday killed more than 100 people and left more than 4,000 people injured. In the aftermath of the blast, videos show plumes of red-brown ...

Ammonium nitrate may have sparked the Beirut explosion. It happened in Texas, in 1947, too By Laura Smith-Spark , Sam Kiley and Rob Picheta , CNN ...

In 1947, an explosion in Texas City, Texas, killed at least 581 people and wounded 3,500 after two cargo ships carrying ammonium nitrate caught fire. In 2013, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas ...

Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated. The stockpile had been left for years at the city's port in a ...

In 2013, ammonium nitrate caused a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The blast from the explosion of 30 tons of ammonium nitrate killed 15 people, wounded 200 and devastated ...

Ammonium nitrate appears to be the cause of the huge explosion that has left large parts of Beirut ruined and at least 100 people dead.. Some 2,750 tonnes of the material had been stored in a ...

Here is the information he has gathered about the explosion in Beirut.Lebanese officials say that thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port in Beirut ...