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Explosions in Taiwan city: Cars overturned, multiple casualties..

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posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 01:28 PM
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Breaking, sounds like (so far) a gas leak from hell ..





*lots of youtube vids but they are not (and I know how to embed) embedding.




Several blasts have ripped through Kaohsiung, a city in south-western Taiwan, overturning cars and injuring over 100 people, local media reported. The cause is thought to be gas leaks in the sewage system. Heavy casualties are expected, Xinhua news agency tweeted.


rt.com...
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posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 01:32 PM
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a reply to: canucks555

Holy crap....that is nuts.....



These guys were right in the middle of it....



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posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 01:42 PM
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Appears a 3.8 quake registered there as well. I wonder if it was a quake that ruptured the lines or if the explosion itself registered as a quake?



posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 01:45 PM
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a reply to: Vasa Croe

Wow (your second clip) -at the 45 second mark, like out of a movie..

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posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 02:02 PM
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a reply to: canucks555

Ditto. That was one very sca-a-ary ride! Horrible to think of all the injuries that will surely come to pass.



posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 03:08 PM
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This story isn't going to get better, this pic is crazy, this is a mass casualty event.



posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 04:05 PM
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Ustream Live



posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 06:06 PM
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It is like the whole city is burning underground

edit: new live stream, the aftermath... I have never seen something like this except in war www.ustream.tv...
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posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 07:13 PM
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See the live feed? There are like..8 huge firetrucks in a crater that goes down the entire street, on their sides and one flipped on its back! Surprised this story is getting crickets, not just here but many msm/non msm sites.



posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 07:21 PM
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a reply to: canucks555

here,,




posted on Jul, 31 2014 @ 07:27 PM
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a reply to: BobAthome

It's daylight there now, I'm following this feed

www.ustream.tv...


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posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 12:36 AM
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a reply to: canucks555

Holy crap...

Talk about normal to a level 10 pucker factor in 2/10ths of a second.



posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 12:51 AM
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originally posted by: canucks555
a reply to: Vasa Croe

Wow (your second clip) -at the 45 second mark, like out of a movie..


And then the power goes out!?

Holy gnarly insanity that is unbelievable. That must have seemed like the end of the world.
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posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 03:10 AM
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I live here (Taiwan) and this has got the local population talking due to the pictures that are almost Hollywood like, . but for how long. We had a plane crash last week and that fervor lasted about 2 days... then gone. We had a typhoon last week with fatalities.... nothing more than a passing news report. We had citizens of Taiwan protesting the nuclear power plants after Japan for less than 1 month.. then gone. Seems tragedy is like a passing fad... With that said, I love living in Taiwan and I love my Taiwanese wife.. I am just afraid that when I kick the bucket that her mourning will be over by morning.



posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 06:04 AM
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Very brief coverage on CNN this morning. No footage, but they keep reporting that a car was blasted onto a third story rooftop in the explosion.



posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 01:45 PM
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NBC News has photos now, including this one:



Looks pretty massive!



posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 09:34 PM
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Latest Update

26 confirmed fatalities as of now.


KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — Hundreds of people who fled from gas pipeline explosions in Taiwan's second-largest city returned to their homes Friday after authorities said there was no more risk of blasts like the series that ripped apart streets overnight, killing 26 people and injuring 267.



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posted on Aug, 1 2014 @ 10:23 PM
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i watched some of it on the local news last nite.

i thought it was gaza!

that's amazing that only 26 died. that has to suck big time.




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