Sussex seaside town’s residents evacuated as major landslide rips through homes ‘like a piece of paper’
Residents in a seaside town have been forced to evacuate their homes after a huge landslip has caused buildings to “tear open like a piece of paper”.
Emergency services have evacuated people living in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, amid fears their homes could be destroyed.
On Wednesday evening, East Sussex Fire & Rescue were called to reports of a landslip affecting the seaside town.
Earlier this month, 12 houses were evacuated following two earlier landslides
Residents fled after fears that their homes could be destroyed
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A local resident told BBC Radio Sussex that a historic Victorian building had been “absolutely destroyed” because of the landslide.
The local described the building which used to be used as a billards room as “engulfed with loose mud and concrete”.
Another described the historic building being “torn open like a piece of paper”.
They said that it was a “perilous situation” after “huge lumps” of rubble were “thundering down” onto the ground below.
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