A young women disappears as the earth suddenly open up and swallowed a her while walking towards bus stop in the city of Lanzhou.
Her feet give way and she disappears into the ground, just a couple of feet away from stunned witnesses.
The unnamed woman appears to hit her head on the way down as her body vanishes from view. Later on in the footage, an onlooker leans over the side of the hole and films her half buried in mud several metres underground.
She is still conscious and desperately calls out for help. Emergency responders eventually rescued her from the hole and took her to hospital, where she was treated for two broken ribs.
The sinkhole measured nine square metres when it appeared from nowhere at 6pm on Sunday. A number of people were seen standing at the same spot moments before the woman approaches and the pavement gives way. Local authorities are investigating the incident, which was all caught on CCTV on Ruide Avenue in Lanzhou’s Chengguan District in Gansu Province. They are yet to determine the cause of the sinkhole.
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