SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A sinkhole out of the blue opened and swallowed an SUV in South Korea’s capital on Thursday, injuring the 2 occupants, emergency staff mentioned.
Images from the scene confirmed a white sport utility automobile engulfed within the 2½-meter-deep (eight-foot-deep) gap that appeared on a road within the central a part of Seoul.
Emergency staff rescued the automobile’s 82-year-old male driver and a 76-year-old feminine passenger. Nobody else was damage within the incident, which occurred at round 11:20 a.m. (0220 GMT), in line with Seoul’s Seodaemun district hearth station.
The circumstances of the injured victims weren’t instantly identified. Visitors within the Seondaemun space continued to be restricted as of Thursday night as staff and officers repaired the broken highway and investigated the reason for the sinkhole.
South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport instructed lawmakers final yr that at the least 879 sinkholes had been reported within the nation from 2019 to June 2023. Almost half of these sinkholes had been brought on by broken sewer pipes, the ministry mentioned on the time.
Final week, a 48-year-old vacationer from India disappeared in Malaysia’s capital when pavement collapsed beneath her and triggered her to fall into an eight-meter-deep (26-foot-deep) sinkhole. Officers mentioned that she could have been swept away by an underground water present.
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