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Schoolgirl survives fall into 25ft deep sinkhole in Shuttlewood, UK

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Daisy-Mae Jones, 7, fell the equivalent height of a two-storey house and incredibly walked away with just cuts and bruises

A seven-year-old girl miraculously survived falling 25ft into a sinkhole.

Schoolgirl Daisy-Mae Jones, fell the equivalent height of a two-storey house while she was playing in a field near her home.

Her terrified mother Janine struggled to find little Daisy-Mae at first because of the thick grass, and the search party were led by the schoolgirl's cries for help until they found the hole.

A nearby builder helped to rescue her - and incredibly, she walked away with just cuts and bruises.

Describing the horrifying ordeal, mum Janine, 39, of Shuttlewood, Derbys., said: "Her friends came to tell us what had happened but the grass in that field is tall and thick, so it took a while to find her.

"We just had to keep calling her, and listening out. When we found her she was crying and covered head to toe in clay and mud. It was terrible."

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Sinkhole opens up on road in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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© @wanluv36A yet-completed tunnel sunk on Wednesday, causing part of a road in Kuala Lumpur city area to sink.
Part of a road at the intersection of Jalan Pudu and Jalan Hang Tuah sunk on Wednesday, after an underground tunnel being constructed, collapsed.

Traffic in Malaysia's capital city was disrupted on Wednesday (July 2) after a road sunk due to the collapse of an underground tunnel being constructed.

According to a report by Malaysia's The Star, part of the road at the intersection of Jalan Pudu and Jalan Hang Tuah sunk after the tunnel, which forms part of the Pudu underpass project by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), collapsed at 10.38am. There was another cave-in at 12.20pm.

Two excavators were in the tunnel when the incident happened, but no casualties were reported, said Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department Assistant Director (Operations) Azizan Ismail said. He predicted the road would collapse further along the tunnel lines, the report stated.

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Highway shut down after sinkhole opens up in northern Alberta

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RCMP shut down Hwy 754, after a sinkhole was found, and spread, near kilometre 74 of the highway, on Monday, June 30.
RCMP in northern Alberta had to shut down a highway in the area, after a sinkhole was discovered near the roadway.

Desmarais RCMP said on Monday at about 7 a.m., officers were alerted to the emerging sinkhole near Highway 754.

Officers responding to the call found the sinkhole near kilometre 74 on Highway 754 - and traffic on the roadway was reduced to one lane, as the sinkhole had started to spread underneath the northbound lane of the highway Monday morning.

Later that day, RCMP said the entire roadway had been closed, as the sinkhole had continued to expand the width of the highway.

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Four people buried by landslide in China

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© China News Service/Zhong XinFirefighters try to rescue the missing people after a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Monday, June 30, 2014.
A landslide on Saturday afternoon in southwest China's Yunnan Province is captured on camera

Amateur video footage shows a large section of steep terrain give way above a village in Daguan County in China's Yunnan Province.

Four residents of the village of Tuohe were out collecting herbs at the time and were buried under tonnes of debris.

Rescuers rushed to hunt for survivors as large boulders continued to tumble down the hill. One victim was pulled out alive but the other three are still missing.


Source: ITN

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Tourist destination? Turkmenistan boosts tourism at burning desert crater locals call 'door to hell'

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© AFP Photo/Igor SasinA picture taken on May 3, 2014, shows people visiting "The Gateway to Hell," a huge burning gas crater in the heart of Turkmenistan's Karakum desert.
An ominous gas crater that has been burning in a Turkmen desert for more than 40 years is a perfect site for boosting tourism in the country, local officials and academics say. The man-made pit, known as "the Door to Hell," earlier faced backfill.

Tourism may not be the strongest side of the Central Asian republic's economy, as only around 10,000 visitors come to Turkmenistan yearly, according to official stats - most of them from Iran, Germany and the US. However, local tourism officials say they found a promising tourist attraction - and it is really hot.

Amid the arid Karakum desert, covering most of the country and known for its extreme temperature changes, one can find a huge sinister-looking pit known as Derweze or Darvaza - commonly referred to by the locals as "the Door to Hell."

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Sinkhole partially swallows car at Perth casino, Australia

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A social media post showed the front and back tyres of a white Hyundai stuck in the hole.
An unlucky driver was left stranded at a Perth casino after a sinkhole partially swallowed their car.

The sinkhole, which opened up in the Crown Casino carpark yesterday morning, developed after heavy rain at the weekend, WA Today reports.

Nine News reporter Scott Cunningham said the bitumen had collapsed in two places, trapping the two left wheels of the driver's side.

"The bitumen has caved in, there's probably a metre-and-a-half drop I suppose where you can see that the sands just all cave in, around and underneath the wheels," he said.

"There's just one car that appears to be stuck there at the moment, security has fenced-off the area around it."

A photo posted by the reporter to social media showed the full extent of the damage.

As the sinkhole is on private property, the casino will be responsible for its repair.

Source: Nine News, WA Today

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15 feet deep sinkhole snares bus near Cincinnati Zoo

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© The Cincinnati EnquirerA Cincinnati Metro bus was stuck in a sinkhole Thursday night.
A sinkhole near the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden that trapped a city bus will likely take a month to fix, according to a Metropolitan Sewer District official.

The Metro bus was partially stuck in the hole, 15 feet wide and 15 feet deep, near Vine and Shields streets in Corryville around 9 p.m. Thursday, said Cincinnati police Lt. Tim Brown, the night chief.

"It's crazy," he said.

The bus was towed overnight.

An MSD crew investigated a reported buckle in the pavement earlier Thursday when crews discovered a backup of sewage upstream of the buckled pavement in the sewer manhole, according to a release. The bus drove over the buckled area around 9 p.m., at which point the sinkhole opened.

MSD crews were called to repair the hole, which sewer construction inspector Dave Rieman says is the largest he has seen in at least a decade. "Cave-ins are common, but not ones this big," he said.


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Massive sinkhole opens up near World Cup stadium in Brazil

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Residents have been evacuated from a favela near one of Brazil's World Cup stadiums, after a huge sinkhole opened up.

Footage shows partially-collapsed homes perched on the edge of the crater in Natal, already filled with household appliances, furniture and vehicles.

The hole is four miles (6.5km) from the Arena das Dunas stadium, which will host the Group D match between Italy and Uruguay on Tuesday.

The sinkhole opened up earlier this week after record rainfall, but has continued to grow since.


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Sinkhole half swallows truck in Mississauga, Canada

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© David PatersonWhen this happens to your truck, you know you're having a really bad day.
A driver doing some errands had a nasty surprise Saturday morning when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath the truck he was driving.

The man, an off-duty police officer, had just picked up some garden furniture from an outlet in a office complex on Ambler Dr. As he was making his way out of the parking lot, he drove through what appeared to be a small puddle.

It turned out to be something much worse.

As he drove over it, the ground beneath his wheels gave way, tipping the truck into a five-foot-deep sinkhole that rapidly started filling with water.

The driver managed to get himself out of the truck and nobody was injured.

Police, fire crews and tow trucks were called to try to pull the stricken vehicle out of the hole.

Firefighters on the scene said that a water pipe beneath the surface appeared to have ruptured and caused the sinkhole to form.

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25 foot deep sinkhole threatens to swallow Muskingum County homes, Ohio

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© Barbara J. Perenic | DispatchMine subsidence caused this sinkhole in Muskingum County. Authorities will try to pull Mike Lane’s home to safety today. Meanwhile, Lane and his family aren’t allowed into the home to retrieve belongings.
A sinkhole that threatens to swallow someone's home in a former mining area doesn't come along that often, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources official says.

But when it does, it's a doozy.

The department, which regulates mining and abandoned mines, has workers at the scene of a 25-foot-deep, half-acre-wide sinkhole that has opened on a small country lane near White Cottage in Muskingum County.

A state-hired contractor will try again today to carefully pull Mike Lane's mobile home back along Stiers Lane before it slides into the sinkhole that opened on Wednesday. The effort was aborted yesterday because the ground was too wet from recent rains.