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Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Smoke rises from debris on Saturday, August 15, near a crater that was at the center of a series of explosions in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality as seen from an aerial view.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
The Donghai Road light rail terminal station in Tianjin, China, is seen covered in debris on Monday, August 17. Explosions at a chemical warehouse left more than a hundred people dead and hundreds injured. Fire officials say hazardous chemicals stored at the warehouse were ignited by fire, but the fire's cause is still being investigated.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
A train with a smashed-up windscreen sits abandoned in the eerily deserted station on August 17.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Smoke rises as damaged cars explode on Saturday, August 15.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Firefighters work August 15 at the site of the explosions.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Soldiers from the National Nuclear Biochemical Emergency Rescue Team launch a rescue mission August 15 at the core area of the explosion site.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Smoke rises from debris on August 15 near a crater at the center of where the explosions took place.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Scattered debris is seen August 15 at the site of the explosions.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Volkswagens lie burned near ruined buildings on Friday, August 14.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
An aerial image taken shows toxic smoke rising from debris in Tianjin, a sprawling port city of more than 13 million people about 70 miles from Beijing.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Firefighters wear protective gear while working as partially pink smoke billows nearby. The environmental group Greenpeace expressed concern "that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin," and city residents shared similar fears on social media.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Rescuers are seen near the site of the blasts. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical were conducting investigations as pressure grew on authorities to explain the cause of the fire and the resulting cataclysmic explosions.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Residents take their belongings as they evacuate from parts of the city. Managers of the warehouse facility have provided "insufficient information" about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Three men walk out onto the streets after being treated at a hospital on Thursday, August 13.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
A Chinese police officer carries a man as civilians flee the area near the disaster.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Fire and smoke is seen from a broken window of an apartment.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
People walk among the crumpled remains of shipping containers. One of the explosions was estimated to be equivalent to 21 tons of TNT, or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called for "all-out efforts" to save the injured and minimize casualties, the state-run Xinhua news outlet reported.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Over 1,000 firefighters were called in to put out secondary fires caused by the explosions.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
People sleep in a classroom at a primary school used as a makeshift emergency evacuation center.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
A bandaged man eats in a hospital in Tianjin.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
A firefighter grimaces as he is examined for injuries. Seventeen firefighters were among the people killed, officials said.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
An injured survivor is brought to a hospital following the explosion.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
Fires continued to burn near the site of the explosions in the early hours of Thursday, August 13.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
A photographer captures the plume of the second, and most massive, of the series of explosions.
Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
The initial explosion erupts Wednesday night, August 12 at a warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Executives of the company were taken into custody, state media reported on August 13.