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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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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