The Cádiz Explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges , containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for unknown reasons.
Official figures given at the time were 150 dead, a figure that has since been reduced to 147, and 5,000 injured, but other sources refer to much higher figures given the extension of the explosion and the populated districts and types of buildings destroyed.
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