Chapter 1492: Mess
Istanbul is destined to be a sleepless night tonight, and the completion of the two strait bridges is a small matter of such a scale and unprecedented terrorist attack, and it is not a big surprise that four bombs killed at least one or two thousand people!
And what, the president died of a heart attack?
Who has the time to pay attention to him, when Istanbul needs support, this president will hang up with a damn heart attack, and it will be good if Istanbulites don't scold!
There is no way, who let the surviving personnel of the shipping management department of the Straits check the information provided by the surviving crew of the Veresagino, everyone has a chill in their backs and a numb scalp!
At this time, who has the strength to pay attention to the former president who can't even bear the bad news and kills himself because of his poor health!
Survival and risk avoidance, this is human nature, but the news spread a little late, and I don't know if everything is too late.
After the escape of the Veresagino crew, they were at first in a state of panic, but when they calmed down and tried to tell the Turks about the special situation of the ship's cargo, they ran into trouble again: none of them knew Turkish, and even a few who could speak English were either injured or did not survive.
The Turks were no better off either, and there was no one who knew Russian or Ukrainian among the people involved in the rescue at first.
The bull's head on both sides is not in the horse's mouth, and there is no way to communicate at all. After going back and forth, the crew was annoyed, thinking that the Turkish Straits Administration should know about the situation, so they didn't bother to talk nonsense with these Turks.
They didn't know that the air traffic control center had also been bombed, and the Turks involved in the rescue would not have known that the sunken Veresagino was an arms ship!
The surviving crew members were soon taken to the makeshift rescue center, and found that it was quite far from the strait and the terrain was quite high, so they did not say anything futile for the time being: they could all see that the Turks did not welcome them very much, and did not bother to pay attention to them.
The crew discussed how to contact the consulate general as soon as possible and find a way to get out of this damn city!
When the Turks found an interpreter who could communicate, the words of the crew terrified the Istanbulites!
The news blockade is impossible, and all the staff members who know about it are trying their best to contact their families: there is a giant bomb in the strait!
People who live within a radius of one or two kilometers of Bridge No. 2 want their families to pack up and flee immediately, and run as far as possible;
It is not easy to live a little farther away, according to the crew, there are one or two thousand tons of explosives on board, and the explosives in it can be three or five thousand tons!
In the event of an explosion, not to mention the shock wave, the stirred up sea water will probably destroy a large section of low-lying buildings on both sides of the strait: the strait is narrow, and the underwater shock wave will hit all the way along the strait, sweeping everything on both sides!
The waves don't have to be too high, one ten meters is enough for the city!
Panic spreads like a plague, and rumors spread throughout the city.
An hour or two later, one of the popular rumors that Istanbulites heard was that the ship was loaded with 70,000 or 80,000 tons of bombs and shells, and if they were blown up, they would be even more terrifying than the Hiroshima atomic bomb!
This statement is not an exaggeration, there are even rumors that the sunken ship is loaded with a large number of biological and chemical weapons, and there are all those who swear that the ship is loaded with nuclear bombs!
Rumours can be extremely destructive at any time, especially when they spread among panicked people, and can turn into disasters if they are not dealt with effectively.
1 can become 10,000, black will turn white, and sows can become elephants!
There are no biological and chemical weapons and nuclear bombs, and there is no need to worry about getting out of Godzilla in the strait after a few years, but the explosives that sank one or two hundred thousand tons are genuine.
Istanbul panicked, Ankara panicked, if this happened in the United States, it would be equivalent to the same arms ship sinking into the Hudson River on the side of Manhattan!
Even worse than that!
There is more than one bustling big city in the United States, New York, but there is only one Istanbul in Turkey.
This will see the whole world do one thing Istanbul: emergency evacuation!
For the time being, there is no time to investigate how many arms are on the sunken ship, and the ones transported to the Gambia Defence Force alone are enough to evacuate the people first.
The Gambians are silent with the giant American company behind them, and the Turks have no time, or even the need to contact each other, for the time being.
The list is clearly written, or is it underwritten by a Turkish state-owned insurance company, which will be silent, it will be all to give you face, and you will not pour salt on your wounds for the time being!
As for the origin of most of the other arms, a small amount is listed in the report, but obviously the amount is not correct, and how to deal with it and investigate it will have to deal with the problem at hand.
The Turks are not stupid, who the owners of those arms are actually have a general direction to follow, who else can they be besides the United States!
The United States is not offended, how to deal with the shipwreck?
Anyway, it is impossible to solve it by Turkey's own strength alone, and in the end it will have to rely on NATO, and even Russia and Ukraine will have to participate in helping, and neither side can be offended to death.
Otherwise, I'll force people to rush and put a small mine on the shipwreck or something...
There is no proof of death!
It doesn't matter whose it is for the time being, and it doesn't matter what it is for the time being, 2,000 tons and 20,000 tons of explosives are not much different for Istanbul, anyway, either one is unbearable, and it must not be wrong to deal with it with 20,000 tons first.
The population in the area near the No. 2 Strait Bridge is not small, and the population in the low-lying areas on both sides of the strait also has to be evacuated, but fortunately both sides of the strait are mountains, and the terrain is basically the kind that rises all at once, otherwise the number of people who need to be evacuated will be an unacceptable number.
But this is only the first step in evacuation, and in the new and old towns at the southern entrance of the strait, there are millions of residents living at low altitudes, and in the event of a tsunami, they will be washed away like water in a canal!
The first batch is tens of thousands of people, and those who can rely on relatives and friends and have money to live in hotels are fine, while a large number of other people can only be temporarily arranged in various schools, gymnasiums and other places.
It's terrible!
The city's traffic is almost paralyzed, the strait bridge is gone, the ferry crossing south of the strait is temporarily only for rescue purposes, and the Turkish government declared a state of emergency in Istanbul yesterday.
Factories have been temporarily suspended, schools have been closed, and many people have been isolated on both sides of the strait since yesterday and cannot return home, and the whole city is in chaos.
Also, a large number of foreign tourists are leaving, but this will not be possible at all, and Ankara is constantly receiving calls from the diplomatic departments of various countries...
What is a large-scale terrorist attack, now the governments of the world can see it clearly, it is really terrifying!
Human-bomb?
That's a child's house!
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