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		</div><p>A sinkhole suddenly opened and swallowed an SUV in South Korea’s capital on Thursday, injuring the two occupants, emergency workers said.</p>
<p>Photos from the scene showed a white sport utility vehicle engulfed in the 8ft deep hole that appeared on a street in the central part of Seoul.</p>
<p>Emergency workers rescued the vehicle’s 82-year-old male driver and a 76-year-old female passenger.</p>
<p>No one else was hurt in the incident, which occurred at about 11.20am, according to Seoul’s Seodaemun district fire station.</p>
<p>The condition of the injured victims was not immediately known.</p>
<p>Traffic in the Seondaemun area continued to be restricted as of Thursday evening as workers and officials repaired the damaged road and investigated the cause of the sinkhole.</p>
<p>South Korea’s ministry of land, infrastructure and transport told legislators last year that at least 879 sinkholes were reported in the country from 2019 to June 2023.</p>
<p>Nearly half of those sinkholes were caused by damaged sewer pipes, the ministry said at the time.</p>
<p>Last week, a 48-year-old tourist from India disappeared in Malaysia’s capital when a pavement collapsed beneath her and caused her to fall into a 26ft deep sinkhole. Officials said that she may have been swept away by an underground water current.</p>
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