Pune: sinkhole swallows up truck on post office premises

Pune: A truck of the civic sanitation department fell in after a sinkhole opened on the premises of the City Post Office here on Friday afternoon.

The incident took place around 4 pm in the densely-populated Budhwar Peth locality.

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The driver of the jetting machine truck — used to clean drainage lines — escaped unhurt, said a fire brigade official.

Underground work of Pune Metro is going on in the area but the reason for the sinkhole was yet to be ascertained, he added.

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Videos showed the truck sliding into the pit rear-side first as the surface, paved with interlocking cement blocks, caved in.

Efforts to pull out the truck were underway.

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