A police officer and a firefighter pass by the wreckage of a collapsed six-storey office building near a metro line construction site in Shanghai on July 1. 2003. The building began to shake in the early morning and came down around 9am. Eastday.com said the accident was caused by drifting sands that suddenly poured into the cross-Huangpu-River metro line M4 that night, causing the ground to subside. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A gap can be seen in the ground.

Several neighbouring building also begin to lean.

The rescue mission.

Police inspect the wreckage as a worker looks on.

Police blocks the site.

People look on.

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