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SEOUL: A fatal sinkhole that opened in the middle of a busy street in Seoul on March 24 is raising new alarms about the growing risk of ground collapses in South Korea's ever-developing urban centres.
SEOUL: A 34-year-old man who fell into a sinkhole in eastern Seoul was found in cardiac arrest on Tuesday morning, 18 hours after the incident occurred, authorities said.
ONE person has been killed after a massive sinkhole opened up in Seoul, the fire department said, with harrowing video footage showing the moment his vehicle was swallowed by the hole.
SEOUL: Rescue efforts continued on Tuesday (March 25) to locate a motorcyclist who had fallen into a massive sinkhole in Seoul's Gangdong-gu district, more than 12 hours after the incident, the authorities said.
A start-up established by officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is going to start a business of forecasting risks of damage in underground sewage pipes by utilising data sent from satellites and an artificial intelligence programme.
GUA MUSANG: The Public Works Department (PWD) has allocated RM2mil for the repair of three sinkholes in Gua Musang, which will be opened to light vehicles before March 28.
THREE sinkholes on two roads at Jinjang Utara in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur have yet to be repaired despite appearing about a year ago.
KOTA BHARU: A second sinkhole has appeared at Kilometre 78 of Jalan Gua Musang-Lojing near Kampung Jekjok on Saturday (March 15), just seven metres from the previous incident.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Mineral and Geoscience Department recorded 24 sinkhole cases from 2019 to 2024, with Perak reporting the highest number at 11 cases, according to the Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Ministry (NRES).
GODSTONE, England (Reuters) - A large sinkhole has appeared in a southern English village, swallowing up at least one garden and forcing authorities to evacuate residents from around 30 homes.
A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, highlights the risk posed by Japan’s ageing pipes.
A lorry cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, a fire department official said.
YASHIO, (Japan): Efforts to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole that opened up near Tokyo on Tuesday (Jan 28) has been suspended again, according to Japanese media.
KUALA LUMPUR: A shopping district in Kuala Lumpur is gearing up for its busiest period of the year, five months after it made global headlines following a tragic incident in which a tourist from India fell into a sinkhole, leaving the area bereft of shoppers.
YASHIO, (Japan): A rescue operation is still ongoing a day after a truck and its driver fell into a sinkhole on Tuesday (Jan 28).
TOKYO: Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday (Jan 28) to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a sinkhole near Tokyo.
Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40 metres wide.
YASHIO, Saitama: The space between the two sinkholes in a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, collapsed early on Thursday (Jan 30) morning and created one larger hole, estimated to be more than 20m in diameter.
KOTA KINABALU: Several lion dance performers had a narrow escape when they fell into a sinkhole while performing at a Chinese New Year celebration in Tamparuli town, 35km from here.
Five households in the immediate vicinity of a massive, ever-widening sinkhole near Tokyo were urged to evacuate Sunday, with efforts to rescue a man stuck inside reportedly halted.
