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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bandula" data-source="post: 224355" data-attributes="member: 2655">Brazil metro collapse12th January 2007<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42446000/jpg/_42446727_image1_afp416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The walls of a huge hole being excavated for a new underground station in Brazil's city of Sao Paulo have collapsed, creating an enormous crater.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42446000/jpg/_42446731_image2_afp220.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Eight people are reported missing after a minibus fell into the 30m (100ft) deep hole when the ground gave way.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42446000/jpg/_42446739_image4_afp416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Emergency services are at the scene, but fears of a further collapse are hampering rescue efforts.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42446000/jpg/_42446735_image3_ap416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Lorries being used on site also fell into the 60-metre (200ft) diameter hole.<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42446000/jpg/_42446725_image5_afp416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Conflicting eyewitness reports cite an explosion before the landslide, others say the structure simply gave way - an inquiry is under way.</blockquote>

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