The Times reported that Nenu Farrugia was talking to his wife on his mobile telephone and a few moments later the fireworks exploded.

Yes, but a lorry is a lorry and a van is a van.

http://www.ghajnsielem.com/activities/10/august_27_morning.html

Those were the type of vans we saw.

[Daphne -Yes, those are vans.]

My family and I were going swimming at Hondoq at about 8am in the morning on Sunday and there were about 6 closed vans coming up from Hondoq with a police car in front of them. I guess they were taking the fireworks to Gharb.

But no, there was no lorry, there were only closed vans.

[Daphne – Lorries can be closed too, you know.]

Highly unlikely that immursjar is being done at this stage of the fireworks season. The trucks were parked in the parking area, unless they surprised everyone and parked them on the roof.

You’re wrong, my friend — the feast at Gharb was celebrated in July.

It doesn’t matter which exploded first or second but what caused the explosion.

Fireworks don’t explode spontaneously nor are explosions triggered by an increase in ambient temperature. Those are all myths. They have to be ignited.

If something was wrong with the chemicals or there was a mistake when the chemicals were mixed they would have exploded during production.

How do you know where the trucks were parked? And how do you know which explosives blew up first?

All I can say is that experts, one of them Servolo Delicata, say that most probably the cause of the explosion is human error during the immursjar as Rene said earlier. The trucks happened to be there and made the tragedy much worse.

I like fireworks, have all respect for those people who are happy to risk their lives but endangering third parties is not acceptable.

[Daphne – Bit difficult for them to leave Hondoq at 6.30am if they left Hal Ghaxaq, a 45 minute drive from Marfa, at 5am. 8am sounds just about right.]