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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & Ertan Karpazli

Britain could be flooded by 'mega tsunami any day,' expert warns

An expert has warned a mega tsunami could hit Britain “at any time”, obliterating coastal towns and cities and sending millions to watery graves.

Sir David King, who once served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government, says the wall of water could be triggered by a huge landslide in the Canary Islands.

The resulting devastation would send a rock the size of the Isle of Man into the Atlantic Ocean with a tsunami several metres high sent plummeting towards the UK.

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