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Shocking footage captured seconds after the sinkhole swallowed the vehicle shows witnesses’ heroic efforts to rescue the trapped family - including a two-year-old girl.  The car is seen


standing vertically after toppling into the five-metre wide crater with the terrified passengers screaming for help.  Incredibly Edgar Orlanda Bartolo Silva, 34, Marisol Mercedes Gutierrez


Siccha, 31, and their toddler all escaped unharmed.  Rescue teams used a crane to haul the car out of the sinkhole, which is believed to have been the result of local downpours and flooding.


  The family were taken to hospital as a precaution after the incident in Trujillo, Peru, on Thursday. The UK has suffered a spate of sinkholes in the past few years, with craters opening up


on motorways and residential streets.  Sinkholes - which can be just a few feet wide or large enough to swallow entire buildings - are usually caused by erosion and the drainage of water. 


The deepest ever sinkhole was 217ft (662m) in China. 


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