© ilfattoquotidiano.itA woman was left injured after she plunged into the sinkhole
A giant sinkhole has opened up in the middle of a busy street in the Italian city of Rome, which plunged a terrified elderly woman two metres below the road.
A 77-year-old woman was walking on the pavement when she suddenly fell into the two-metre deep crater, which appeared on Tuesday morning.
Emergency services scrambled to the street in Catania, in the Piazza Bologna, to rescue the injured woman.
The woman was rushed to Policlinico Umberto I hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries.
The road was closed off while officials investigated the causes of the crater.
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