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Foreign experts say firefighters might be to blame for huge blasts in Tianjin

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As Chinese authorities continue to battle fires at the site of two massive explosions in Tianjin, foreign experts say hosing water onto chemicals may have caused the two huge blasts that killed at least 56 people, and injured about 700, Reuters reported.

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