'Hell hole' appeared in Malaysia

A mysterious wormhole suddenly appeared on a street in Malaysia on the evening of June 30.

The crack is 5 meters long on the road of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah state.

Malaysian officials have a warning wire around the pit. There is currently no explanation for the appearance of this hole. June is the most rainy month in Malaysia. Only in June, southwest monsoon winds brought rainfall by one fifth of the total annual rainfall.

A truck was overturned in the path of the pit.

Unexpected pits that appear like this are often called hell holes. They are often formed in places where there is a geologic layer containing many easily soluble or soluble solids such as limestone, carbonate and salt.

When there is a heavy rain and storm, the abundance of groundwater flows through those hard substances, which will decompose or dissolve, leaving underground holes and caves. When the caves of the underground caves collapsed, it dragged the land above to make the craters appear.

Photo: Xinhua