Dramatic footage shows massive explosion at Ukraine arms depot
Updated | By Laila Majiet
Tall plumes of black smoke and fiery red flames were seen rising above a warehouse.
It follows a massive explosion at a warehouse storing ammunition for multiple rocket launcher systems at a military base in Ukraine.
The enormous explosion has prompted a mass evacuation.
Footage of the horrifying explosion has surfaced on social media.
Around 30 000 people have already been evacuated.
The blasts occurred at the military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270 kilometres west of Kiev, according to Ukrainian emergency services.
So far there are reports of only one injury following the blast late on Tuesday.
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