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A glass aquarium holding 13 sharks tank has cracked open sending water gushing into the streets.

The footage is akin to a horror film as torrents of water flood the nearby area with the creatures still lurking in the tank watching in wait.

Emergency services were called when a panel detached from the base of a pool at the aquarium in the city of Mazatlan, in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa.

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An 80cm section of acrylic glass reportedly detached and collapsed causing the leak - but luckily the hole was not big enough for the sharks or other fish to escape.

The pool housed 13 sharks and various other fish but all were successfully transferred to other tanks, and happened while the aquarium was closed.

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It had only opened on December 23 after eight years of construction and with a final bill of more than £3m.

Local politician Fernando Pucheta Sanchez told a press conference that the aquarium had been opened days before the former president of the city left his post and that "the work was opened in an irresponsible way."

Local media said that Milay Quintero, the director of the aquarium, had warned about fissures in the pool some days before the accident and asked for a structural review of the building.