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Massive growing sinkhole raises concern in Shreveport, Louisiana

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Shreveport city officials and especially concerned customers who shop right next door.

KSLA news 12 has received several phone calls about the large hole on Grimmett Drive in north Shreveport.

It's a growing hole that until recently few even noticed. Now the leaning columns and cracking cement have made the problem a dead giveaway.

"Right now, I came here and I asked the owner is it going to be safe to continue to come here, and drive across this parking lot, and get gas and shop here," Clyde Simpson said. He believes the sinkhole started small but has grown so quickly he's afraid of what could happen next.

"I come here often, and now I'm thinking the store is going to start to collapse, it's going to make a run for it."

KSLA News 12 was there as city drainage and sewage workers came out to take a firsthand look at the hole at a vacant building next to a convenience store on Grimmett Drive. Workers quickly put up caution tape warning others.

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Two cars fall into sinkhole in Omaha, Nebraska

 Sinkhole swallows two cars
Sinkhole swallows two cars
A man is now thanking his lucky stars he was not hurt after his car got swallowed up into a giant sinkhole. It happened around 10:15 p.m. Thursday night near Aksarben Village.

Investigators said the concrete ceiling above an underground parking garage gave way at 60th and Woolworth Avenue outside the "Tracks Bar".

As a result, two cars fell into the sinkhole.

The man was able to get out on his own.

Investigators are now trying to figure out what caused the sinkhole.

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Growing sinkhole closes 3 lanes on Interstate 5 near Tracy, California

Tracy sinkhole
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A sinkhole along Interstate 5 in San Joaquin County is diverting traffic.

The sinkhole is just south of Highway 33, Caltrans says.
Tracy, California
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Northbound I-5 at Highway 132 will be closed for at least two to three days due to the sinkhole. A detour has been set up at Highway 33.

A Caltrans maintenance crew found the small hole on Tuesday morning, but that hole wouldn't stay small for long. Caltrans says the hole was 15 feet and growing and crews will have to tear apart the roadway to find the source of the sinkhole.


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Terrifying landslide fimed by mobile in China

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Heavy rain swept south China in the past few days, triggering several geological disasters.

On Sunday, a passersby recorded a terrifying landslide moment by his mobile phone in the city of Hechi, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.


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Sinkhole splits truck into two in Tiantai, China

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A sinkhole swallowed on Sunday a cement tanker in Tiantai city, East China's Zhejiang Province.

Surveillance footage shows the terrifying moment the road under a moving large truck collapsed, sucking it into a hole.

The driver managed to get out safe, albeit with minor injuries.

Police dispatched four rescue vehicles to the scene, and the road is reportedly undergoing repair and fortification.


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No parking! Tanker is completely swallowed up by a hole during landslide in Turkey (VIDEO)

The clip, taken on a worker's mobile phone, shows the huge red lorry start to fall backwards almost in slow motion
The clip, taken on a worker's mobile phone, shows the huge red lorry start to fall backwards almost in slow motion
This is the shocking moment a landslide swallowed up a huge tanker at a quarry, dragging it deep underground in a matter of seconds.

A video showed the dramatic incident take place in the Tunceli province, in the middle of Turkey's eastern Anatolia region.

Panicked workers had spotted the gaping hole starting to form around the red lorry which had been parked nearby.

The clip, taken on a worker's mobile phone, shows the huge red lorry start to fall backwards almost in slow motion.

As many colleagues run to higher ground, others get out their smartphones to film the incident.

One can be heard shouting in Turkish: 'Yalla! Giddicek!' which roughly translates as: 'Look, it's going'.


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Garbage truck falls into sinkhole in Cleveland, Ohio

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Pictures of a City of Cleveland garbage truck that fell into a large hole have surfaced on Twitter.

Cleveland Dispatch told newsnet5.com a vehicle fell into a sinkhole at Elk Avenue and East 101st Street.

The pictures were tweeted by @parkerlewisftw just before 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday.
#CLE neighborhood didn't get trash picked up cuz street swallowed truck. Can't make this up #thisisCLE #organizeCLE pic.twitter.com/qBDMRekivW

— Tamir Rice (@parkerlewisftw) May 25, 2016
Our crew went to the scene and learned the sinkhole was 5-6 feet deep and 10 feet wide.

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Car swallowed by sinkhole in Barnaul, Russia

It needed 15 people to get it back out
© CENIt needed 15 people to get it back out
This incredible footage reveals what greeted a 24-year-old woman when responded to her car alarm going off in the street.

Elena Silina had parked her Toyota IST outside a hotel where she worked in its beauty parlour.

But when she heard her car alarm she rushed outside and was shocked by the sight that greeted her.

As the footage shows, her car was almost swallowed whole by the massive sinkhole which had opened up in the road.

Ms Silina said: "When I looked down, I saw my car sinking into the road!"

She called the emergency services who needed 15 people and a crane to lift the car out of the sinkhole.


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200-meter-long sinkhole swallows dozens of cars in Florence, Italy

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A giant sinkhole opened up in the very center of Florence, Italy, swallowing dozens of cars parked near the iconic Ponte Vecchio bridge. Firefighters claim that the sinkhole appeared after an old underground pipe broke. No injuries were reported, but two buildings in the surrounding area were evacuated.


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Watch giant sinkhole swallow four cars in China

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A shocking video has emerged from China, where a sinkhole swallowed four parked cars 3 meters into the ground. The hole was 5 meters wide, and also devoured a few trees.


Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident, but firefighters spent a few hours using cranes to get the vehicles out of the hole.

A local, who witnessed his vehicle being swallowed underground, said, "I was having lunch at the other side of the road when I saw the tree was sinking slowly."

"All of a sudden, the road subsided, and all the cars, including mine, fell into the hole. Then I called the police, and firefighters arrived after a while."