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CNN —A massive explosion on Tuesday evening near Chad’s capital city of N’Djamena killed at least nine and injured 46 others, according to a statement from its foreign minister. Video authenticated and geolocated to the international airport in N’Djamena shows a massive fireball and sparks rising in the night sky. Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows that 17 structures at the ammo depot were destroyed. In the satellite image, the structures destroyed in the explosion were spread out, and in two groups that were at opposite ends of the complex. Chad’s president Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said that an investigation will be conducted into the cause of the fire at the ammunition depot.
Persons: It’s, , Adoum Mahamat, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno Organizations: CNN, Maxar Technologies, Reuters Locations: Chad’s, N’Djamena
Reuters —A fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena triggered a series of blasts on Tuesday night, Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said, with witnesses saying at least one person was killed and several wounded. Another resident said his neighbor, a shopkeeper, was killed after a shell hit him. Then we saw a big fire at the military camp and smoke and things exploding in the air,” he said. “We could see artillery fly over us.”A Reuters witness saw flames and heard explosions for about an hour and said smoke was spreading around the city. The fire broke out just a few kilometers away from Chad’s main international airport, which authorities said was not affected.
Persons: Koulamallah Abderaman, Moustapha Adoum Mahamat, , Organizations: Reuters, Foreign, Media Locations: Chad’s, N’Djamena, people’s
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