• antidote101@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s known that their hospital system has servere levels of over crowding, and the article states both that:

    The video shows cots, blankets, and other personal belongings on the grassy area. Taken together, these two videos indicate that it was likely occupied by people who were resting or sleeping there at the time of the explosion.

    And that:

    Other images from the parking lot of the hospital show widespread damage to vehicles in the parking lot, including one that was flipped over onto its roof. Another vehicle nearby shows signs of extensive damage, while others show evidence that they were engulfed in flames.

    …an over crowded space, babies in cots, with an explosion large enough to flip a car, near one of the few areas with grass soft enough to sleep on.

    Plus a fire.

    Plus due a hospital low on supplies, low on water, in need of emergency power… Could probably kill hundreds, and cause the death of more.

    If the hospital had some structural damage as well. Could probably do plenty of killing. The article doesn’t nominate a number, so I can’t speak to your source on that.