Mississippi: 400ft sinkhole swallows vehicles in car park
A huge sinkhole in Mississippi has swallowed 12 vehicles outside of a pancake restaurant. The 400ft (121m) section of the outdoor car park caved in on 8 November, pulling in cars, trucks and SUVs.
The ground dropped about 15 ft (4.5m), but luckily no one was injured. The sinkhole appeared outside a branch of the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in Meridian that had only opened just days before.
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Officials say it is not clear what caused the hole to appear, but that engineers and contractors were due on site on 9 November. A local newspaper reported that the area that sank was near a storm drain, and that rain could have been a factor.
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