Photo Gallery A Deadly Red Spill
A Hungarian soldier wearing chemical protection gear in the flooded town of Devecser in western Hungary. The red sludge has affected several places after the rupture of a reservoir in an alumina plant.
A crashed vehicle near the village of Kolontar. The sludge has killed at least four people.
It is still not clear what caused the reservoir to burst on Monday, releasing several hundred thousand cubic meters of toxic sludge containing lead and other heavy metals.
An image of the reservoir from 2006. The red mud is produced during the manufacture of alumina, used in the smelting of aluminum.
The reservoir on Tuesday, a day after it had burst.
A rescue worker in Devecser, around 150 kilometers west of Budapest.
A resident of the village of Kolontar outside his home. Hundreds of people were injured by the toxic sludge.
A dead cat covered by the red mud.
Some of the people of Devescer sit on the roof of a house waiting to be rescued.
Tunde Erdelyi, a resident of Devescer, saves her cat. The authorities have told anyone who came into contact with the mud to wash their skin repeatedly with fresh water and change their clothes.
Erdelyi looks into her home which was flooded with the toxic mud.
Residents have lost their homes or are forced to leave.
Police officers and fire fighters have joined in the clean-up operation.
Fire fighters evacuate people from Devescer.
The poisonous mud has covered an area of 40 square kilometers.
The sludge carried logs along with it as it swept over the town of Devescer.
Cars piled up in the sludge.
A dead fish on the windscreen of a car. The authorities are concerned the sludge could reach the Danube River via one of its tributaries.
The toxic sludge has seeped into the soil.
A woman cries as she stands outside her contaminated home.
