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Shoppers were caught completely by surprise as a 30-ton aquarium full of fish, turtles and sharks exploded without warning in a Shanghai mall earlier this month. The flying glass, debris and fishes injured more than a dozen people. The drama was caught on closed-circuit television and posted to YouTube. It sent shards of glass flying at unsuspecting shoppers when the huge tank burst. On the left, a freeze frame milliseconds after the aquarium cracked open. The woman seen in the frame is apparently paralyzed in shock. The video shows onlookers get swept up in waves as the water gushes out of the aquarium. “There was no warning. Just a loud crack and it went. I’ve never been so scared,” a worker at the Shanghai Orient Shopping Centre said The glass was reportedly 15 cm thick. Some 15 people were injured, including eight shoppers and seven staff.
