The 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio De Janeiro was engulfed in flames on Sunday night, the New York Times reports, as firefighters battled for hours to save the building and its collections. Footage from Latin American network TeleSUR shows the fire rising through the exposed roof beams of the gutted museum building, a former royal palace that has housed the museum collections since 1892:
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