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He’s fine and tweeting about it.

I know that “officials” gives them a good narrative and makes it sound like they’re the plucky reporter here to expose THE TRUTH!!! about brutal governments and backwards brown people, but you can literally tell from their clothing that they’re civilians. CNN is already being dragged on Weibo by Chinese netizens for their shitty behaviour, so maybe grow some respect and have the basic human decency not to pigeonhole every other news piece into FREEDOM OF SPEECH white bullshit. 

Hospitals are already overcrowded and turning away minor injuries as it is, just so they can keep up with the more seriously injured victims, the last thing they need is a whitey with a huge fuck-off camera showing up and pissing away their time. This is a disaster area with a severe shortage of staff and time, and y’all the nerve to turn into an issue about ~~freedom of press~

50 people have been confirmed dead, 12 of who are firefighters 

36 firefighters are still unaccounted for 

More than 700 people have been hospitalized 

At least 71 are in critical condition 

There were 2 explosions. Both originated at a warehouse site owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai International Logistics Co. (瑞海国际物流有限公司), a company that stores and transports dangerous chemicals 

The first explosion occurred around 11:30pm local time, and had the force of 3 tons of TNT. A group of firefighters quickly arrived at the scene, only to suffer from the second larger explosion, which had the force of 21 tons of TNT.