WATCH: IED Explosions, Gun Battles Erupt Between Warring Factions In Major Leftist-Run City

An explosion rips through the air and smoke billows up from the horizon. An improvised explosive device or IED just detonated tearing apart ramshackle huts and sending their impoverished residents fleeing as the sound of gunshots fills the air. No. This isn't the bombed-out rubble of Aleppo or stock footage of the streets of Fallujah. It's an American city in 2023.

Within sight of the I-5 Freeway and the Harborview Medical Center, "multiple explosive devices" detonated Friday in what is euphemistically called a "homeless encampment," in reality, it's a slum, a shantytown like one sees near Mexico City, Cape Town, Mumbai, Karachi or Nairobi. And it's smack in the heart of one of America's largest cities: downtown Seattle.

According to KOMO News, a newly released police report has indicated a possible connection between the massive explosions and spate of gunfire to an escalating war for control of the lucrative drug trade in Seattle's slums.

Witnesses reportedly told Seattle PD that the explosion was a targeted attack on a "fentanyl tent" where some twenty "customers" were inside using the lethal narcotic.

"[Witness] stated minutes prior to the explosion he saw the devices and alerted others inside. [Witness] stated everyone inside the tent freaked out and exited by lifting the other side of the structure to escape. [Witness] stated he then attempted to exit south due to hearing gunshots and flashing from the bush to the northeast, but saw another IED south of the structure."

Allegedly a former leader within the shantytown returned armed after being ousted. He returned and attacked the tent intending to rob the people within. Witnesses said the former leader was known for making explosive devices and had been instructing others in the skill. He is reportedly connected to other charges of drug trafficking in downtown Seattle.

KOMO reported that though the tents of the slum were incinerated in the blaze, it is already being rebuilt with a news team finding new tents, gas cans, and propane tanks at the site. A surveillance camera was even seen mounted to a tree. The police reports indicated that the slum's leaders use the cameras to monitor activity near the drug tents.

Jim Fuda of Crimestoppers of Puget Sound told the outlet, "I like to use it as a sort of 'Lord of the Flies' scenario. There’s their own hierarchy infrastructure that ends up in these camps."

He added, "There are drugs, prostitution, human trafficking going on and they feel like they have free reign unless they do something outside the camp," continued Fuda. "I think our city is going to act, they’re going to have to clear these places out. It’s a bad cycle and if it’s allowed to continue I think it’s going to get worse."

This is Biden's America in 2023 in one of the most prominent leftist run cities, where IED explosions and broad daylight gunbattles between drug lords rage through the slums with police seemingly powerless to stop it.

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