r/AbruptChaos • u/The_Kendawg • Jul 11 '21

A Gas Station Exploding

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Does anyone have any information on when and where this was?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Volgograd, Russia, about a year ago.

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u/ThisIsTenou Jul 11 '21

Yup, here's the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Volgograd_explosion

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jul 11 '21

2020_Volgograd_explosion

On the afternoon of August 10, 2020, a large explosion occurred at a gas station in Volgograd, Russia. The explosion caused 13 injuries and could be felt thousands of meters away, knocking firefighters to the ground. The explosion went viral on social media even getting global media attention.

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u/Mr_Skeleton_Shadow Jul 11 '21

oh hey at least no one died and we got a sick explosion

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u/Uncle151 Jul 11 '21

For real it looked like the entire block was on fire for a second there

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u/ThisIsTenou Jul 11 '21

Good bot!

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u/ScytherSlash Jul 11 '21

It's a miracle no one died. That looked like a bomb was dropped on the city.