TIANJIN, China: An enormous explosion in a major Chinese port city killed at least 44 people and injured more than 500, state media reported Thursday, leaving a devastated industrial landscape of incinerated cars, toppled shipping containers and burnt-out buildings.
An AFP reporter in Tianjin saw shattered glass up to three kilometers from the site of the blast, a storage facility for dangerous goods where the detonation unleashed a fireball that lit up the night sky and rained debris on the city.