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- 2008_Gërdec_explosions abstract "At approximately noon local time on Saturday 15 March 2008, at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality, Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition. The methodical destruction of the old ammo was supposed to occur with a series of small, controlled explosions, but a chain of events led to the entire stockpile going up at once. The main explosion, involving more than 400 tons of propellant in containers, destroyed hundreds of houses within a few kilometers from the depot and broke windows in cars on the Tirana-Durrës highway. A large fire caused a series of smaller but powerful explosions that continued until 2 a.m. on Sunday. The explosions could be heard as far away as the Macedonian capital of Skopje, 170 km (110 mi) away.Thousands of artillery shells, most of them un-exploded, littered the area. The blast shattered all the windows of the terminal building at the country's only international airport, and all flights were suspended for some 40 minutes. Some 4,000 inhabitants of the zone were evacuated and offered shelter in state-owned resorts. The Government declared the zone a disaster area. According to subsequent investigations, a privately managed ammo dismantling process was ongoing in the area.[citation needed]".
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- 2008_Gërdec_explosions caption "Gerdec, aftermath of explosion.".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions casualties "26".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions casualties "300".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions date "2008-03-15".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions place Albania.
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions place Gërdec.
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions time "noon".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions subject Category:2008_in_Albania.
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions subject Category:2008_industrial_disasters.
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions subject Category:21st-century_explosions.
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions subject Category:Disasters_in_Albania.
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- 2008_Gërdec_explosions comment "At approximately noon local time on Saturday 15 March 2008, at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality, Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition. The methodical destruction of the old ammo was supposed to occur with a series of small, controlled explosions, but a chain of events led to the entire stockpile going up at once.".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions label "2008 Gërdec explosions".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions label "Eksplozje w Gërdec".
- 2008_Gërdec_explosions label "Explosionskatastrophe von Gërdec".
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