Huge fire guts Brazil's 200-year-old National Museum - video report

A massive fire has ripped through the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. The fire started on Sunday after the museum had closed and quickly spread through the entire building. The museum houses more than 20m artefacts including dinosaur fossils, a meteorite and a 12,000-year-old human skeleton. There have been no reports of injuries and the cause of the fire is not yet clear.
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