Tuesday 5 August 2014

Are you sure you parked it there? Landslide swallows car park and leaves bus stranded (Pictures)

Two cars were left teetering on the edge of a cliff after a heavy rainstorm caused the landslide at a car park in Tokushima
Swallowed: Half a car park collapsed during heavy rain
A bus containing terrified passengers lies trapped halfway down a mountainside after heavy rain caused this gigantic landslide.

Amazingly, none of the passengers were killed as half a car park in Tokushima, Japan, was swallowed up.
Two cars were left dangling over the cliff's edge.
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On the brink: Two cars dangle off the edge of the cliff after the landslide
Around 500,000 people had to evacuate areas of the country yesterday as violent storms raged.
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Trapped: The bus became stranded halfway down the massive landslide
Last month, a similar incident occurred as terrifying footage emerged of the moment another Japanese town was completely obliterated as the land slipped away.
Three people died - including a 12-year-old boy - and thousands had to flee the central farming town of Nagiso after rocks and boulders swept away their homes.
Typhoon Neoguri was to blame, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, but still carried wind gusts of up to 78 mph.
The footage shows the rain battering the town until the ground can take it no longer and quickly starts to move away.
Within seconds, all that remains is a scene of complete devastation.


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