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March 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
There was no official word from the government on the cause of the explosions,
or damage sustained.
A diplomat said firefighters were finding it hard to fight the blaze because
of ongoing explosions.
A number of houses were completely destroyed, while others saw windows and
doors were blown away and roofs lifted.
A Catholic church, close to the barracks, was also damaged when the explosions
occurred during Sunday mass.
“It’s a munitions depot that caught fire in Mpila. That’s next to the
presidential palace. I saw two people injured. One had a leg injury, the
other a wound to the shoulder,” a woman living in Brazzaville said.
“They had probably been hurt by falling debris from houses. A wall fell
down in my home,” she added.
“There are many people on the street. They are running away, barefoot,
carrying parcels on their heads. Some are hardly dresssed. There are no
cars, no buses, no taxis,” she added.
River traffic between Kinshasa and Brazzaville was also suspended, a Kinshasa
port official said.
Xinhua news agency said some 140 Chinese
workers from the Beijing Construction Engineering Group were working near
the munitions depot when the blasts occurred.
The dormitory building of China’s Huawei company was badly damaged, but there
were no casualties reported there, Chinese officials said.
At least five strong explosions were heard between 8:00 am (0700 GMT) and
10:45 am (0945 GMT).
A plume of smoke could be seen over Brazzaville from across the Congo River in
Kinshasa, capital of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
In addition to the blasts, there were other weaker detonations which continued
into the late morning.
On the opposite river bank, in Kinshasa, several buildings had their windows
blown out, and a church in the centre of town also suffered damage, a cleric
said.
Source: AFP
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