At around 2 p.m. on Sunday March 7, three huge blasts and a series of smaller explosions from the Nkoantoma Military Base leveled much of Equatorial Guinea’s largest city and sent thousands of people fleeing into the countryside reut.rs/30DC8b7 
The first explosion 'was so big that all of us and the people around us were shouting: "This is a bomb, this is a bomb!"' said a teacher in Bata, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from the authorities
Preliminary analysis of satellite images from @UNOSAT suggests 243 structures were completely destroyed by the explosions. Days on, residents of Bata were still coming to grips with the full scale of a disaster that has killed at least 105 people and injured more than 600
Satellite images provided by @Maxar and preliminary analysis by UNOSAT show the obliteration of buildings on the base, the destruction of other nearby structures and scorched vegetation reut.rs/30DC8b7 by Samuel Granados @OvaskaOvaska and @aaronross6
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