The aftermath of that huge fuel explosion in China looks like a post-apocalyptic video game

If you don’t live in China or an adjacent country where you could presumably still hear the blast, or have been otherwise living under a rock, you may not have heard about the insanely huge explosion that rocked the city of Tianjin on Wednesday and briefly caused the city to look like the set of a conspicuously over-budgeted natural disaster movie.

Unfortunately, this disaster was very real and, tragically, has so far cost at least 50 people their lives, with many more still in critical condition. But, with the threat of further explosions unlikely, news cameras have started picking their way through the wreckage and devastation of the explosion, which occurred at a hazardous chemicals warehouse site, and the fallout looks just like a scene from a post-apocalyptic video game.

Screenshot: Sina News

Images from China’s Sina News depict the area caught up in the blast as an eerie wasteland of dust, debris and destruction. The charred husks of trucks and cars, the skeletal, blown out frames of towering administrative buildings, huge shipping crates buckled and misshapen. It really is a harrowing sight.

Screenshot: Sina News

The enormous explosion, triggered by an out-of-control fire that firefighters were struggling to control at the time of the blast, is just the latest in a long series of catastrophic infrastructure failures that many Chinese citizens blame on the government and private industry’s cavalier attitude towards public safety.

To the government’s credit, many of the executives at the Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co., the hazardous chemicals transport agency whose facilities the explosion occurred at, have reportedly been taken into custody for possible negligence, although that will be little comfort to Tianjin’s residents, who now face fears of chemical contaminants potentially projected into the environment by the explosion.

Authorities are still investigating the exact cause of the blast.

Head over to Sina News (Chinese only) for the full photo gallery.

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Featured image: screenshot via Sina News

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