The claim
There is said to have been a powerful explosion in Beijing in connection with an alleged coup in China.
Our conclusion
The rumors of a coup can currently neither be confirmed nor denied; in any case, the explosion took place in China in 2015.
So far it is purely an internet rumor that China's head of state Xi Jinping was deposed and placed under house arrest after his return from a state meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
And how it is with rumors: Users addicted to profiling jump on the bandwagon and spread supposedly exclusive material about a situation - which often turns out to be false claims. Like the video that supposedly shows an explosion in Beijing in connection with the alleged coup.
The supposedly current video
45 or 51 , depending on the source, and shows a nighttime explosion in a city, filmed from a window.
The text of this and other tweets sounds correspondingly conspiratorial:
Footage of large explosions from Beijing during China's coup against Xi Jinping. China is in turmoil! Xi Jinping has disappeared! Is this a coup? Was he assassinated and I’m uncovering a military secret that no one is talking about?”
The video is already from 2015!
The video was uploaded to YouTube back in August 2015:
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Several media outlets reported on the explosion in Tianjin, including Euronews , BBC , The Guardian and ARD :
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At that time, Ruihai International Logistics' warehouses in Tianjin exploded. Investigations into the explosions revealed that they were built far too close to homes and stored more dangerous chemicals than permitted, including 700 tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide. 173 people died in the explosion.
Conclusion
Whether there really was a coup in China cannot yet be confirmed; at this point it is purely an internet rumor. However, the recording of an explosion that was widely used in this context is already seven years old and although it comes from China, it has nothing to do with any current events.
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