Two Injured After Sinkhole Opens Directly Below SUV
A sinkhole appeared in the central part of Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, swallowing an SUV and injuring its two occupants. Emergency services rescued the 82-year-old male driver and the 76-year-old female passenger, although their conditions were not immediately reported. Photos showed the white SUV engulfed in an eight-foot-deep hole. Traffic in the area remains restricted as repairs and investigations are underway. South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport noted that 879 sinkholes were reported between 2019 and mid-2023, with many caused by damaged sewer pipes. This incident comes shortly after a separate case where a tourist in Malaysia fell into a deep sinkhole due to pavement collapse.
A sinkhole suddenly opened and swallowed a SUV in South Korea’s capital on Thursday, injuring the two occupants, emergency workers said.
Photos from the scene showed a white sport utility vehicle engulfed in the eight-foot-deep hole that appeared on a street in the central part of Seoul.
Emergency workers rescued the vehicle’s 82-year-old male driver and a 76-year-old female passenger. No one else was hurt in the incident, according to Seoul’s Seodaemun district fire station.
The conditions of the injured victims were not immediately known. Traffic in the Seondaemun area continued to be restricted as of Thursday evening as workers and officials repaired the damaged road and investigated the cause of the sinkhole.
South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport told lawmakers last year that at least 879 sinkholes were reported in the country from 2019 to June 2023. Nearly half of those sinkholes were caused by damaged sewer pipes, the ministry said at the time.
Last week, a 48-year-old tourist from India disappeared in Malaysia’s capital when pavement collapsed beneath her and caused her to fall into a 26-foot-deep sinkhole. Officials said that she may have been swept away by an underground water current.
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