A surreal scene occurred this Sunday in front of an apartment building in Bombay (India).

A car barely parked by its owner was engulfed in a hole that suddenly opened under its wheels.

Kiran Doshi, a 67-year-old doctor, had just parked his vehicle in a parking space in front of his home when he noticed that the car was tilting rapidly.

"My two children ran out of the house," the Indian told

Reuters

, relayed by 

HuffPost

.

“By the time they got off, the car had started to slowly drown in the abyss.

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Car sinks into the ground in Mumbai's #Ghatkopar amid heavy rainfall pic.twitter.com/i3bbmqaN6x

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The car recovered with a crane

Fortunately, no one was in the car.

The scene, which lasted less than a minute, was filmed by several witnesses, including the sixty-year-old's stepdaughter.

The authorities quickly intervened.

According to them, the car had been parked above an old well blocked by a cement slab.

But the torrential rains of the last days have caused a subsidence of the ground and the weakening of the slab.

"We pumped the water out of the well and then spotted the vehicle at the bottom," a police officer told 

The Indian Express

.

“We lifted it with a crane.

The operation took a dozen hours.

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