BATTERY BLAST Huge explosion ‘fueled by EV batteries’ rips through airport killing boy, 15, & injuring 163 in blast felt for 20 miles

[Batcat]

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

Any more brilliant insights into the obvious, Cap'n?

Well apparently it wasn’t all that obvious to the people who put the batteries in the airport warehouse.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I looked this up today, 26 November. The explosion took place in a warehouse, not the airport. The explosion was believed to have been caused by a lightning strike on a warehouse storing flammables. I could find no mention whatsoever of EV batteries. The one fatality was a boy struck by a falling window frame.

The warehouse stores components for electric vehicles, according to the Russian Telegram channel Sirena, which also raised doubts about the cause of the explosion being a lightning strike.

"According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, the cause of the explosion was a lightning strike on a warehouse [which stores] electric cars and batteries for them. At the same time, lightning is not visible in a video [which shows] the moment of the explosion. Also, eyewitnesses did not report this on social networks," the Telegram channel reported.

Videos show colossal fireball after explosion at customs warehouse

The Tashkent blast reportedly damaged houses 20 miles away.

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