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Beirut explosion linked to Russian ship storing ammonium nitrate left in port, called ‘floating bomb’

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Officials warned the ship was ‘a floating bomb.’ Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city’s port for nearly seven years without appropriate security precautions that officials warned was “a floating bomb.” The Russian vessel, named MV Rhosus, carrying agricultural fertilizer with […]