Preservationists are in a race against time to save Iraq's 1,700-year-old Arch of Ctesiphon from collapse. The ancient arch is the world's largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork and forms part of the ruins of Ctesiphon, an ancient city located 35 kilometres (22 mi)les south-east of Baghdad. The site served…
Newsflash/@SDIS51 These images show how a lorry carrying a cargo of vans made a petrol station roof collapse at a motorway in France. The incident took place at the A4 motorway service area of Valmy, about halfway between the French capital Paris and Metz, with the images of the vans…
CEN/@isa.araujo.90 This is the moment mass graves are filled with coffins in the Amazonian capital Manaus in Brazil as the region struggles to deal with the numbers dying from the coronavirus. City officials said each of the graves can contain up to 10 people as the death toll continues to…
CEN/@bazabazon This is the moment a bridge collapses under the weight of a lorry, creating a hole that swallows the car behind. The incident was filmed on the Artem-Nakhodka-Vostochny Port motorway near the village of Romanovka in the district of Shkotovsky in the far-eastern Russian region of Primorsky Krai, bordering…
Newsflash This is the moment the metal roof of a Mexican market collapses in a heavy hailstorm as the people inside run to safety. The shocking scenes were recorded at the vegetable section of the market in the municipality of Iztapalapa, in the Mexican capital Mexico City. In the video,…
