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Fire, Large Plumes of Smoke from Beirut Blast

<p>Dramatic photos of the aftermath of the massive bomb blast in the Hezbollah militant group's southern Beirut stronghold emerge on Twitter.</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/tweet_embed.png" alt="desktop:&lt;blockquote class=\twitter-tweet\ lang=\en data-scribe-reduced-action-queue=\&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Liban&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Liban&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Beyrouth&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Beyrouth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Lebanon&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Lebanon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Beirut&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Beirut&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\http://t.co/nVrXRUZSkO\&gt;pic.twitter.com/nVrXRUZSkO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/SimNasr/statuses/418776354708918272\&gt;January 2 | 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=\//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\ charset=\utf-8\&gt;&lt;/script&gt;" title="desktop:&lt;blockquote class=\twitter-tweet\ lang=\en data-scribe-reduced-action-queue=\&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Liban&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Liban&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Beyrouth&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Beyrouth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Lebanon&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Lebanon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Beirut&amp;src=hash\&gt;#Beirut&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=\http://t.co/nVrXRUZSkO\&gt;pic.twitter.com/nVrXRUZSkO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Wassim Nasr (@SimNasr) &lt;a href=\https://twitter.com/SimNasr/statuses/418776354708918272\&gt;January 2 | 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=\//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\ charset=\utf-8\&gt;&lt;/script&gt;" class="news-widget" id="widget_3" data-widget-name="tweet_embed" data-widget-id="5" data-widget-image="http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/tweet_embed.png" data-desktop="%3Cblockquote%20class=%22twitter-tweet%22%20lang=%22en%20data-scribe-reduced-action-queue=%22%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523Liban&amp;src=hash%22%3E#Liban%3C/a%3E%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523Beyrouth&amp;src=hash%22%3E#Beyrouth%3C/a%3E%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523Lebanon&amp;src=hash%22%3E#Lebanon%3C/a%3E%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523Beirut&amp;src=hash%22%3E#Beirut%3C/a%3E%20 %3Ca%20href=%22http://t.co/nVrXRUZSkO%22%3Epic.twitter.com/nVrXRUZSkO%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E—%20Wassim%20Nasr%20(@SimNasr)%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/SimNasr/statuses/418776354708918272%22%3EJanuary%202,%202014%3C/a%3E%3C/blockquote%3E%20%3Cscript%20async%20src=%22//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js%22%20charset=%22utf-8%22%3E%3C/script%3E" data-meta-info="desktop"></p>

Dramatic photos of the aftermath of the massive bomb blast in the Hezbollah militant group's southern Beirut stronghold emerge on Twitter.