Brazzaville arms dump blasts

When

4 Mar 2012

Kind

Explosion

Coordinates

4.24° S, 15.29° E

Description

Series of explosions at an ammo and arms dump in Republic of Congo

2012 deadly explosions in Congo

On 4 March 2012, a series of blasts occurred at an army arms dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo. At least 300 people were killed by the explosions. Additional bodies were said to be "unfindable." Among the dead were six Chinese workers from a Beijing Construction Engineering Group work site close to the armoury.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, with at least 250 people dead”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “刚果共和国首都布拉柴维尔發生一系列爆炸，至少250人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page