The water was so hot, anybody inside the cars would have been boiled alive
© CEN/VK The water was so hot, anybody inside the cars would have been boiled alive
Hot steam gushed from a massive 15-metre sinkhole that opened up in a Russian road

This is the bizarre moment two cars got sucked into a giant sinkhole filled with boiling water.

The incident happened in the south-west Russian city of Samara when massive pipes containing hot water from a central heating system burst underneath a road, causing a massive 15 metre sinkhole to open up.

Hot steam could be seen rising out of the sinkhole as tarmac and the two cars fell inside.

Local media reported that had anybody been inside the cars they would have been boiled alive.


Two cars plunged into a sinkhole filled with boiling water in Russia
© CEN/VK Two cars plunged into a sinkhole filled with boiling water in Russia