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When Dubai’s Mega-Buildings Attack

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Usually when you hear about buildings in Dubai, it’s a news report about how the country is building the biggest or tallest or most freakishly-shaped skyscraper. But of course that means their industrial accidents are also the most spectacular too. Click the image to see up-close what it looks like when a giant crane crashes to Earth and wraps itself around huge metal structural girders along the way. Nobody was hurt when this crane collapsed yesterday on a metro station, but it did cause a hellacious traffic jam. Photos via STR/AFP/Getty Images.

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