About. Clock 11:30. We sit at the customer at work. A flat concrete buildings. Suddenly a thud. Concrete dust trickles down from the ceiling. We are looking at us. Because what has fallen to the ceiling. Everyone looks a little irritated. Short shrug. . Further work

About. 30 minutes later. Now it crashes harder. And dusty, even dramatically. The eyes are a little anxious. 10 years ago, the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam destroyed. About. 100m from here. But the new embassy is quite far away from here. A few people go outside and look to see if you can see anything. Nothing.

In the afternoon around 15:00 clock. We received the news that the town center from which we are a few kilometers away, was evacuated. All high-rise buildings, especially office buildings were evacuated. About. 15km from the city center burns a munitions depot. At 15:30 there will be one more, this time controlled explosion. We will vacate the building because people would come from the cleared Vodacom headquarters here and need these jobs. We are not really angry. Let's stop closing time.

I have no idea what was being stored in the ammunition depot, but when an explosion at more than 15km away feels as if someone drops a heavy load on the building, it will probably have been more than a couple of shot-gun ammunition. Time will still have the explosion at 40km distance heard and felt.

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