Greenpeace team members arrive at the location near Meihua Hotel, Jinhai road, where the media indicated “mysterious white foam has appeared on the streets”, to test the water on cyanides in an artificial landscape water pool of Yujingyuandi, a residential area near the hotel, Tanggu District, Tianjin.
On the night of August 12, double explosions at a chemical storage plant - the first equivalent to detonating three tonnes of TNT, and the second equivalent to 20 tonnes - rocked Tianjin port in northeast China.