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“Do they not see what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and the earth? If We please, We could cause the earth to sink with them, or cause pieces of the sky to fall upon them. In that verily is a Sign for every repentant servant.” (Al Quran 34:10)
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(CNN) — As a giant red backhoe gouged into the Florida home where a massive sinkhole swallowed a man, pieces of the family’s lives were pushed into public view.

Walls with picture frames on them came crashing down. Baby toys and clothes on hangers were raked across the ground.

A woman wept as an official handed her a framed portrait. Others lovingly salvaged military awards, a pink teddy bear and an American flag that hung near the house’s front door. The family Bible bore claw marks from the backhoe’s bucket.

Workers demolished the blue, one-story home as carefully as they could Sunday and Monday to try to protect family belongings.

By Monday afternoon, all the walls of the house were gone and “a lot of the debris” had been removed, Hillsborough County spokesman Willie Puz said.

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