Massive 50-meter sinkhole swallows road in Bangkok

A road collapse in central #bangkok has produced a sinkhole approximately 50 meters deep and covering about 900 square meters.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt and other officials indicated that ongoing construction of an underground train station may have contributed to #soildestabilization. According to the governor, the #sinkhole occurred when upper soil strata began leaking into a shallower #tunnel joint, causing #subsidence of the road above. He described a cascade process: the collapse of the road dragged down electrical poles, ruptured water pipes, and allowed additional soil to wash into the #underground #construction void, exacerbating the #collapse

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