On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing 218 people, injuring thousands, ...

The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to more than 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, and officials feared a potential explosion. According to local media, the fire started Monday night.

The tanker was carrying 42 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which triggered an explosion. "Just after 9:40am, a blast was heard and felt and there was a visible large cloud of smoke," Superintendent ...

In 2023, then-chief prosecutor Ghassan Oweidat ordered the release of 17 detainees, including port and customs officials, who ...

Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production, the same chemical used in 1995's Oklahoma City Bombing," says Siobhan Morris at Newstalk 1010.

4, 2020, hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a Beirut Port ... who had been held in pre-trial detention since the explosion. Bitar and legal experts condemned the move as unlawful.

Ammonium nitrate remains pivotal for fertilizer and explosive applications, driven by safer formulations, technological ...

The Lebanese judge investigating the 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two people on Friday in connection with the deadly ...

This latest chemical truck crash follows a major closure of the Bruce Hwy in September last year after a B-double truck carrying 42.5 tonnes of ammonium nitrate caused an explosion near Bororen ...