Brazil’s nationwide museum, a 200-12 months-old construction that contained 20 million items in its collection, went up in flames on Sunday night time.
Symbol copyright Getty Photographs Image caption The Fireplace began on Sunday evening, after the building – a nineteenth-Century former royal palace – had closed for the day. 
Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption The Fireplace lit up the night time sky, and despatched plumes of smoke over town of Rio de Janeiro. 
Symbol copyright Getty Photographs Symbol caption one in every of the largest anthropology and herbal history collections within the Americas used to be virtually totally destroyed within the blaze. 
Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption The museum housed heaps of items associated with the history of Brazil, to boot as artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the primary fossils present in Brazil. 
Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption No injuries were suggested. 
Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption it’s no longer known what caused the blaze, but officials have blamed lack of funding for the devastation. 
Symbol copyright AFP Symbol caption The destruction of the museum has been defined as a “cultural tragedy”.
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