Heavy rain damages Russian World Cup stadium on final day


A view shows a flooded area after heavy rain near the Volgograd Arena in Volgograd, a host city for the soccer World Cup, Russia July 15, 2018. Picture taken July 15, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Heavy rain damaged one of Russia's newly-built World Cup stadiums on Sunday when the tournament ended with the final in Moscow.

Footage from the southern city of Volgograd showed a fresh landslide on an embankment near the stadium, which made a several-metre-deep hole in it and fully covered a sidewalk with mud.

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