Balazs Gardi's photostream  

A young boy from Kolontar, Hungary tries to clean up a flooded garden on October 7, 2010.

A sludge reservoir at a nearby factory burst its banks on October 4, 2010, unleashing a lethal flood on nearly 200 million gallons of red mud. The mud is a byproduct of the conversion of bauxite to alumina, for aluminium. Eight people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

Indications of the levels a flood of a highly alkaline caustic sludge reached could be seen on the walls of a house in Kolontar, Hungary on October 6, 2010.

A sludge reservoir at a nearby factory burst its banks on October 4, 2010, unleashing a lethal flood on nearly 200 million gallons of red mud. The mud is a byproduct of the conversion of bauxite to alumina, for aluminium. Eight people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

Residents of Kolontar, Hungary wait for permission to visit their flooded houses on October 6, 2010. Indications of the levels a flood of a highly alkaline caustic sludge reached could be seen on the walls of a house behind them.

A sludge reservoir at a nearby factory burst its banks on October 4, 2010, unleashing a lethal flood on nearly 200 million gallons of red mud. The mud is a byproduct of the conversion of bauxite to alumina, for aluminium. Eight people were killed and more than 100 were injured.