In yet another bizarre incident, a video of a car disappearing within seconds into a sinkhole has gone viral on social media. The incident occurred in a residential parking lot in Mumbai after the rain on Sunday.
In the viral video, a Hyundai Venue car can be seen sinking into a caved-in portion of a parking lot on the premises of a Ghatkoapr residential society. The video shows the car’s bonnet and front wheel enter the sinkhole first, then the rear part of the car follows and soon the vehicle disappears within seconds under the water.
Other parked vehicles including the car just next to it were no affected.
The incident was recorded on camera by the car’s owner Dr. Kiran Joshi. He said, “We have another car in the compound and the man who cleans it alerted us. We came out onto the passage and before our eyes, the car disappeared into the well.”
According to police, the parking area was constructed over an old well in the Ramnivas building. Dr. Doshi told that the well is about 30 feet deep and over 100 years old. “We are using submersible pumps to suck out the water and a crane is here to get the car out,” he added.
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By the evening of Sunday, authorities started the process of pumping water of the well. The traffic police along with BMC officials managed to remove the car from the well around 9 pm. “We removed the water from the well using pumps and after we spotted t3he vehicle, we lifted it with the help of a crane.
The video has surfaced at a time when Mumbai along with coastal areas of Maharashtra is getting heavy monsoon rainfall.
The resident of the building told that the building was constructed more than 80 years ago and the concrete portion around 40 years ago. The well supplies water to the residents of the Ramnivas building. “Half of the well was covered with the concrete portion and the other half was kept open. Everyone parks cars there and this is the first time that a portion of it caved in,” said Dr. Doshi.