Venezuelan authorities have begun moving residents out of the Tower of David, a skyscraper notorious as a haven for squatters and gangs in the capital, Caracas.
More than 100 families have been relocated from the unfinished 45-storey building, the start of an operation by military authorities to clear a longtime symbol of festering poverty and lawlessness in the heart of the Venezuelan capital.
The Tower of David, which was remade into a forbidding warren of makeshift shelters with armed guards - and has been called the world's tallest shantytown, has been home to about 3,000 people.
On Tuesday morning, several dozen residents were seen exiting the building with their belongings, and boarding government vehicles to be taken to new homes outside the city.
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