Beirut explosion: Where else is ammonium nitrate being stored?
The attorney general in war-torn Yemen has ordered an investigation into media reports alleging more than 100 containers of ammonium nitrate are being kept at the southern port of Aden.
But the government's Yemen Gulf of Aden Ports Corporation said the containers were actually being used to store"organic urea, used as agricultural fertilisers"."And it's not banned to manage or store them."The Iraqi government has ordered an immediate review of hazardous materials at ports and airports and found ammonium nitrate had been stored at Baghdad international airport.
And South Australia's workplace safety watchdog, SafeWork SA, said ammonium nitrate was being stored at 170 heavily regulated and monitored sites across the region.An investigation has been launched into the storage of ammonium nitrate at a large port in Lincolnshire, Immingham, as well as at other sites in the Humber region.
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