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((Short description|1956 disaster in Cali, Colombia))
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The '''Cali Explosion''' occurred on August 7, 1956, in downtown [[Cali]], [[Colombia]]. It was caused by the explosion of seven army ammunition trucks loaded with 1053 boxes of [[dynamite]], which were parked in Cali overnight. In 1956, the city of Cali had around 400,000 inhabitants.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.elpais.com.co/especiales/explosion-7-agosto/ |title=Explosión 7 agosto|website=www.elpais.com.co |language=spanish |access-date=2021-03-01))</ref> More than 1,300 died from the explosion, and another 4,000 were wounded.<ref name=Ayala>((Cite web|url=https://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual/credencial-historia/numero-117/la-explosion-de-cali-agosto-7-de-1956 |title=La explosión de Cali: Agosto 7 de 1956|last=Ayala Diago|first=César Augusto|website=www.banrepcultural.org|language=spanish|access-date=2019-03-21))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mysterious-explosions-in-colombia |title=Mysterious explosions in Colombia |website=www.history.com |access-date=2021-03-01))</ref> Some estimate go as high as 4000 deaths and 12000 injured.<ref name=caracol>((cite web|title=7 de agosto de 1956, el día en que la 'Sucursal del Cielo' fue un infierno|url=http://caracol.com.co/emisora/2016/08/07/cali/1470602915_939260.html|website=caracol.com.co|date=7 August 2016 |access-date=2021-03-01))</ref>

== Events ==

Seven army trucks, loaded with 1053 boxes of dynamite, came from [[Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca|Buenaventura]] and were parked in an old railway station. The explosion occurred in the early hours of the morning - destroying 41 blocks and leaving a crater 50 meters wide and 25 meters deep. The blast destroyed buildings, homes and businesses, killing more than 1,300 people and injuring more than 4,000.<ref name=Ayala/> Six districts were affected: San Nicolás, El Porvenir, El Hoyo, El Piloto, Fátima and Jorge Isaacs.<ref name=caracol/>

The blast caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3. The noise was heard in [[Buga, Valle del Cauca|Buga]], [[Palmira, Valle del Cauca|Palmira]], [[Santander de Quilichao]], [[Caloto, Cauca|Caloto]] and [[Jamundí]].

Hypotheses at the time for the explosion include trucks overheating or a soldier accidentally firing his gun. The incident occurred while [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]] was president. He attributed the tragedy to the opposition, who had recently signed the [[National Front (Colombia)#Creation|Benidorm covenant]].((citation needed|date=March 2021))

== Reactions ==

In the early hours following the explosion, priest Alfonso Hurtado Galvis intervened.((clarify|date=November 2021)) He said of the incident: "the mushroom cloud left by the explosion resembled that formed by the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]], but smaller in proportion ... mutilated body parts including legs, arms, torsos could be seen. The scene was horrific.. dead and wounded everywhere."((cn|date=November 2021))

In the central cemetery 3725 skulls and body parts were buried in a mass grave.((citation needed|date=July 2020)) An iron cross near streets 25 and 26 was erected to commemorate the incident.

Following the tragedy, local Colombian organizations such as the [[Colombian Red Cross|Red Cross]], the Sendas organization (Department of Social Welfare and Child Protection, later the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar), the [[Asociación Scouts de Colombia|Boy Scouts]] and the [[Sisters of Charity]] and clergy offered help. The [[Holy See]], then headed by Pope [[Pius XII]], the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of Afghanistan, the [[Imperial State of Iran|Pahlavi dynasty of Iran (Persia)]], Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos, the Philippines, North Korea, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela,  the Mongolian People's Republic, South Korea, Japan, China and Europe sympathised with the victims.((citation needed|date=March 2021))

== Popular culture ==
* ''[[Bloody Flesh]]'' (Spanish: ''Carne de tu carne'', "Flesh of Your Flesh") is a 1983 Colombian drama horror film written and directed by [[Carlos Mayolo]] based on the explosion.

== References ==
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[[Category:Explosions in 1956]]
[[Category:Cali]]
[[Category:1956 in Colombia]]
[[Category:August 1956 events in South America]]

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