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Video recording from Rome: six meters deep hole after water damage
Via Zenodossio is a good seven kilometers east of the Roman Colosseum.
Here, on Tuesday, two cars sank in a large crevice in the asphalt.
As reported by Italian media, the local police found a Mercedes and a Smart in the six-meter-deep and twelve-meter-long hole around eleven o'clock.
The street was cordoned off over a large area.
According to initial reports, water damage in a garage is said to be responsible for the debacle.
According to a report by the online service fanpage.it, the fire brigade is currently not assuming that there could be static problems for the adjacent houses.
In the Italian capital there are several roads in bad condition, the asphalt sinks again and again.
Residents have been complaining about a lack of repairs and adequate maintenance of the city's water pipes for years.
Only last September, only a few hundred meters away from Via Zenodossio, the earth opened up in Piazza Marranella after a water pipe was damaged.
The residents of the district had called for a ban on heavy vehicles and a widening of the sidewalks.
In June, the civil defense is to use special equipment to determine the stability of the soil.
So-called sinkholes occur again and again in Germany.
According to the Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ), there are hundreds of such incidents every year.
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