At least 135 dead in massive Beirut explosion, thousands injured

A quick back of the envelope calculation. Pardon my mixing of units.

The bags in the picture are 1000kg bags, or one ton. Roughly 1 cubic meter (so probably prilled, with a poor packing ratio). They are stacked 2 high.

3000 tons then would occupy a volume roughly equivalent to a small warehouse. So the math works.

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