{"id":37889,"date":"2025-09-24T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-sinkhole-pulls-down-power-lines-in-busy-bangkok-street\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:00:36","slug":"moment-sinkhole-pulls-down-power-lines-in-busy-bangkok-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-sinkhole-pulls-down-power-lines-in-busy-bangkok-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment sinkhole pulls down power lines in busy Bangkok street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A giant sinkhole opened up on a busy Bangkok road in front of a hospital and police station, causing evacuations. Cars were left teetering on the edge of the crater in a residential area of Thailand&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The hole, roughly 50m (160ft), pulled down power lines and exposed a burst pipe gushing water, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The collapse was likely linked to recent heavy rain and a leaky pipe, authorities told news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Thai authorities have confirmed there were no injuries or deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cqjeg47v0k4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant sinkhole opened up on a busy Bangkok road in front of a hospital and police station, causing evacuations. Cars were left teetering on the edge of the crater in a residential area of Thailand&#8217;s capital. The hole, roughly 50m (160ft), pulled down power lines and exposed a burst pipe gushing water, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37891,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37889\/revisions\/37891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}