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This hole is just scary. They say that the heavy rains washed the ground, so the road just collapsed but how it can be so deep?

It is 100 meters (330 feet!) deep.

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Backstory on this one:

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.

The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up.

Rescue operations were on hold until a firefighter, suspended from a cable, could take video and photos above the hole and officials could use the documentation to decide how to proceed.

The dead were identified as Irma and David Soyos, emergency spokesman Juan Carlos Bolanos said. Their bodies were found near the sinkhole, floating in a river of sewage.

Their father, Domingo, was still missing, according to disaster coordinator Hugo Hernandez.

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This Wikipedia link displays a lengthy list of most unusual deaths.

Here are some of examples:

1972: Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.

2005: 28-year-old Korean video game addict Lee Seung Seop collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft and World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours.

2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating.

Not to mention the recent Steve Irwin one.

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Here are some photos which can indeed be described with only 2 words : “holy shit.”

More such photos can be seen at Frogview.com

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Photos of the aftermath of the bombings were censored by the American occupation forces because they prohibited any thing “that might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility”. The pictures remained classified ‘top secret’ for many years.

This is the horror they didn’t want us to see, and that we must NEVER forget.

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All the watches found at the epicenter stopped at 8:15am, the time of the explosion.

The heat at the epicenter was so high that it literally vaporized every human around it, leaving only outlines on hard surfaces.

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“When the blast came, my friend and I were blown into another room. I was unconscious for a while, and when I came to, I found myself in the dark. Thinking my house was directly hit by a bomb, I removed red soil and roof tiles covering me by hand and for the first time I saw the sky.I managed to go out to open space and I looked around wondering what my family were doing.

I found that all the houses around there had collapsed for as far as I could see.”

Quite eerie and moving interview done with several survivors from Hiroshima bombing.
Below is another eerie piece of the interview:

“It was a black rain with big drops.

INTERVIEWER: How big were the rain drops?

TAKAKURA: They were so big that we even felt pain when they dropped onto us. We opened our mouths just like this, as wide as possible in an effort to quench our thirst. Everybody did the same thing. But it just wasn’t enough. Someone, someone found an empty can and held it to catch the rain.

INTERVIEWER: I see. Did the black rain actually quench your thirst?

TAKAKURA: No, no it didn’t. Maybe I didn’t catch enough rain, but I still felt very thirsty and there was nothing I could do about it. What I felt at that moment was that Hiroshima was entirely covered with only three colors. I remember red, black and brown, but, but, nothing else. Many people on the street were killed almost instantly. The fingertips of those dead bodies caught fire and the fire gradually spread over their entire bodies from their fingers. A light gray liquid dripped down their hands, scorching their fingers.”

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