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Four great demolition disasters

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17 October 2015

8:00 AM

17 October 2015

8:00 AM

Bang goes the plan

The demolition of six tower blocks in Glasgow failed when the top half of two of the blocks settled upright on rubble. Some more demolitions which went wrong:
— A girl of 12 was killed and several people injured in 1997 when the Royal Canberra Hospital toppled rather than collapsed in on itself.

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