Video shows massive ball of fire in China’s Tainjin explosion

The video of the blast had been recorded from apartment building at far distance from the site of the explosion. The video shows a series of explosions in a loop with each turning out to be bigger than the previous one.

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, smoke rise from the site of explosions from a nearby building in the Binhai New Area in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday. (Yue Yuewei/Xinhua via AP)

Recent reports say that at least 44 people have been killed in the explosion and hundred others scarred. Twelve of the dead were from among the more than 1,000 firefighters sent to fight the blaze set off by the explosions shortly before midnight, the official Xinhua News agency said. It said 520 people were being treated in hospitals, 66 of them with serious injuries.

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