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Victim and eye witness Német Imre stands still stunned in his damaged house in Devescer, a neighbouring village of Kolontár in Hungary (picture from the 4th of April in 2011). .On the 4th of October in 2010, the embankment of the disposal basin, which was used to store red mud, broke. Subsequently, up to 1 million cubic metres of the corrosive red mud containing heavy metals emerged..The mud got into the swollen stream Torna and flooded the communities alongside..Six months after the catastrophe, traces and damages on houses, people and landscape are still obvious...Photo: Christian Hager dpa BITTE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS BEACHTEN / PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS Nicht für den Bildfunk / Kein Pauschalankauf möglich / Mindesthonorar EURO 30,00 + + + Flat rate purchase not possible / Minimum Charge EURO 30,00 (KEYSTONE/DPA/Christian Hager)