(April 19, 2013 at 11:30 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Are we any closer to understanding why the plant went Big Badah Boom?
I assume you mean what started the fire that caused the explosion. It's not difficult to figure out why it went boom. Add a large fire to a warehouse full of a substance that is not only explosive but acts as an accelerant, and you'll get a really big, fiery explosion out of it.
I'm guessing that the only hope they have of learning what caused the fire is eyewitness reports, since the warehouse (and a fair bit of the area around it) has probably been reduced to a crater.
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