'Like a Rag Doll' "We began running, and we made it about two feet out of the control room" before the building disintegrated, he said.

But instead the entire building completely disintegrated into small particles at free-fall speed.

The main building did not fully disintegrate and had to be manually demolished.

In 2008 Daigneau said that the building was slowly disintegrating.

With no financial incentive to keep up their properties, landlords let their buildings disintegrate.

Still, the occasional shaking of the ground as the building disintegrated, and the inexorably approaching flames made him increasingly nervous.

For block after block, houses and buildings had disintegrated into piles of dust and rubble.

Now, all around him, dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating, but the need to keep going has not.

On 15 March 1986, the building rapidly disintegrated in less than a minute at about 11.25 am, leaving little time for anyone within it to make their escape.

That old building, it's disintegrating; it's a ruin.