he Eiffel Tower is seen at sunset in Paris. (Reuters photo)PARIS - The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's most famous landmarks, will get a glass wall built round its base under a plan to provide extra protection against terrorist attacks, a source in the Paris mayor's office said on Thursday. The 324-metre-high structure, which gets about 7 million visitors a year, already has protective metal fencing around its base, erected temporarily for the Euro football championship of 2016. Glass panels two-and-a-half metres high would be erected around the base of the tower as an anti-terrorist measure if the plans are approved, the source said. The cost of the project will be around €20 million (748 million baht), le Parisien newspaper said.

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2017 13:30 UTC