Posted on 09/05/2024 11:14:48 AM PDT by george76
Terrifying surveillance video has captured the moment a tourist was suddenly swallowed by a sinkhole while walking down a busy Malaysia street — sending her plummeting some 26 feet below ground and sparking a frantic search for the still-missing woman.
Rescue workers have been scrambling around the clock ever since Vijaya Lakshmi, 48, disappeared into the massive sinkhole in the center of Kuala Lumpur
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Chilling CCTV footage showed an unsuspecting Lakshmi, who was visiting from India, strolling along before the sidewalk abruptly gave way beneath her — causing her to drop through the huge square hole.
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At least one man sitting on a nearby seat managed to narrowly avoid being swallowed up as well, the clip shows.
A group, believed to be Lakshmi’s relatives, could be seen desperately peering into the hole just moments after the woman vanished.
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So far, search crews have reportedly only been able to locate the woman’s shoes underground as emergency workers utilized ground-penetrating radars in a bid to find her.
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Meanwhile, as the frantic search entered its sixth day, another sinkhole opened up Wednesday — just 160 feet from the one that swallowed up the tourist.
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They’ve been looking for her for 6 days. Wow.
KL is a giant construction zone these days - probably tunneled too close to something they shouldn’t have.
That’s terrible. If they know the depth of the hole is 26 feet, that means the local government is aware of this hole being there, open to any pedestrian. Too many somebodies have not done there job of maintenance or have left a dangerous hole unmarked, unfilled. None of the upcoming finger pointing is going to help this poor woman, though.
If she fell through the earth, according to antipodes map, they should be looking for her in: Morona Santiago, Ecuador
It’s probably too late already, if she even survived the fall.
That poor woman. What a horrible way to go.
Pretty traumatic for her family, too.
It’s your time when the street swallows you.
IS this location directly opposite PALOS VERDES in Los Angeles???
Thanks for doing that work for us, however,
gravitationally wouldn’t she just stay in the center with all the rest of the stuff ?
I wonder if she was staring at her cell phone when she stumbled into the sinkhole?
Nope. There’s video. Road just opened up under her feet like a trap door.
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