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Six-year-old girl blows up tower block!

It was standing for over 60 years but took just seconds to bring down.

A six-year-old girl got to push the button to start a controlled explosion of this tower block in Coventry.

It took 43 tonnes of explosives to bring down the 16-storey tower.

Houses and a primary school are going to fill in the space where the building used to be.

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