A video has been going viral which shows the demolition of 19 blocks of flats and that too, in just 10 seconds. The demolition took place in Wuhan, China, in order to make space for a skyscraper, which will be 707 meters tall, along with a new business park.
The buildings were 12 storeys high and five tonnes of explosives had been used for their demolition.
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The general director of the demolition company, Jia Yongsheng, said this to CCTV,
“For this kind of large-scale blasting demolition conducted in the downtown area, we not only need to guarantee the demolition result, but also strictly control the adverse effects of blasting. The demolition effect was quite ideal. The explosion didn’t affect the light rail and public facilities around the blasted buildings. There was no damage and adverse effects of blasting.”
Residents of the area, which is known as Hankou Binjiang estate, left it weeks back.
The general director also said that the explosives were planted in nearly 120,000 places in the building and the timing of each one of them was so set that they had difference of micro seconds between them.
Well, this type of incident can happen in China only! What do you say? Let us know your views in the comments section below.
