A video that has emerged out of Mumbai, India shows a sinkhole opening up beneath a parked Hyundai Venue.
Last week we wrote about a large sinkhole that opened up in Jerusalem, swallowing three cars and a handful of trees. This one was just big enough to envelop the little Hyundai.
The incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday. The Drive reports that the man responsible for washing cars in the parking lot first noticed the concrete beneath the Venue starting to give way. He quickly alerted the son of the Hyundai’s owner but he wasn’t able to save it before the sinkhole opened up and the car sunk nose-first into it. It took just a matter of seconds before the car disappeared into the water.
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Local media reports that the sinkhole opened up following a heavy spell of rain. The exact area where the Venue was parked was situated directly above an old well built roughly 80 years ago and believed to be up to 40 feet deep. Half of the well was covered with a concrete slab four decades ago and, apparently, it finally gave way.
To remove the Venue from the sinkhole, local rescue crews pumped out all of the water and then used a crane to pull the SUV out. The whole operation took 12 hours and by the end of it, they pulled out a soaking wet Hyundai that will no doubt be heading straight to a scrapyard. Fortunately, no one was inside the car at the time it sunk.
#WATCH| Car sinks into the ground in Mumbai's #Ghatkopar amid heavy rainfall pic.twitter.com/i3bbmqaN6x
— TOI Mumbai (@TOIMumbai) June 13, 2021