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The city believes that the sinkhole, located at the intersection of Avonhurst Drive and Elphinstone Street, may be the largest ever seen locally at an estimated 7.5 metres deep.
The hole has been described alternatively as the next Capital Pointe project or the gopher hole from which the new Gainer mascot arose.
State Civil Protection chief Francisco Martínez Ávalos said that strong rains Tuesday afternoon provoked a sudden flood in an area that seconds previously would have been dry. It swept away and drowned the tourists who were traveling in a van and an ATV.
The state Attorney General's Office said searchers had recovered the bodies of a 65-year-old man, a woman and four young boys and girls aged 14 to 19 after they were discovered yesterday by a teenager riding his horse through the canyon and another man.

Track of TD ‘Mun’ in Vietnam, July 2019.
Disaster authorities in Vietnam reported heavy rain in the country's North Central provinces. Tinh Gia (Thanh Hoá Province) recorded 366mm of rain in 24 hours to 04 July, Quynh Luu (Nghệ An Province) with 282mm and Tay Hieu (Nghệ An Province) with 284mm. Further heavy rain could affected northern and central areas, including the capital Hanoi.
Vietnam News reported that 2 people were killed and 3 injured on 04 July after a bridge in Thanh Hoá Province collapsed due to the heavy rain.

California officials have confirmed four cases of white-nose syndrome in Northern California. The disease has killed millions of bats nationwide since it was discovered in 2006. In this file photo, an infected bat has a white fungus growing on its muzzle.
Government biologists confirmed Friday that a number of bats found near Lassen Volcanic National Park had tested positive for the germ that causes white-nose syndrome — a relatively new disease that leaves a trademark smudge of white on the infected animal's muzzle.
The illness, which is caused by a cold-loving fungus, appeared suddenly in the Northeast just over a decade ago and has moved steadily west. The fungus has devastated North American bat species in some regions and pushed the natural pest controllers toward extinction.
Deputy county coroner Chase Ridgeway told WPDE the person killed was 44-year-old Ryan Gamble of Andrews, S.C., who died shortly after being transported to the hospital in critical condition. Two others were treated at the hospital for minor injuries.
The National Weather Service reported the strike occurred around 2:10 p.m. At the time, they said 12 people were injured and four were unresponsive.
The volcano, also known as Klyuchevskoi, erupts every three to five years, previously erupting in 2015.
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About 130 sea lions and pups are now being treated at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, KRON reported.
The center normally treats 50 to 70 young sea lions from April to June, said Greg Frankfurter, wildlife veterinarian at the facility, KNTV reported.
Some of the adult California sea lions may be suffering from domoic acid poisoning, related to toxic algae blooms in the ocean, according to the station. But experts aren't sure why they're also seeing more malnourished pups.
This is only the seventh time since Dutch meteorologists started taking temperature measurements at a height of 10 centimeters in 1971 that there has been frost in the Netherlands in July. The last two times were on 9 and 10 July 2015, and before that on July 1st, 1984.
Forty climbers set out at 06.00 am to climb to the summit and had to return to Avusor Plateau.
Ercan Kesti, who returned from the group due to heavy snowfall, said, "We tried to climb Kaçkarlar but there is an incredible snowfall.













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