What actually happens to the human body when an explosion happens in close proximity?

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Honestly, I’m watching a war movie and a dude got hit by an IED. It got me thinking though, and I don’t quite get what is the lethal factor in an explosion?

There always seems to be fire in the movies, and it’s clearly a lot of force. But my question is what ACTUALLY happens to (I guess anything) that gets hit by a large bomb/explosion from a play by play/physics situation?

I feel like this is kinda dark, but I just had one of those curious moments and felt like this was the appropriate place to ask

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Watch any Kurzgesagt video on Youtube involving explosions or nukes and you will get a good visual ELI5.

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