Sinkhole Sucks 32-Year-Old Man, It Took Hours to Recover His Dead Body From 42-Foot-Deep Pit

A 32-year-old man was recently found dead after he was sucked into a sinkhole that at the same time opened in a swimming pool in Israel.

It took four hours for rescue operations before its emergency services recovered the man's body earlier this week from a hole 43 feet deep, a Newsweek report specified.

The man, Klil Kimhi, the exact cause of his death, whether he was crushed or drowned, or died from falling, remains unknown.

A video uploaded on social media reveals the swimming pool floor, built in a private home located in Karmei Yosef, central Israel, "buckling and collapsing inwards," sucking in the majority of the pool water within seconds, the report specified.

2 Men Dragged Into the Sinkhole

Two men were vacuumed into a vortex that dragged them into the hole. One of the two, aged 34, could climb out, while Kimhi was later discovered. According to the Times of Israel, six people were in the pool at that time, while the rest were unharmed.

The United States Geological Survey reported that while there are lots of ways sinkholes can form, they typically occur when the ground beneath the land surface dissolves into the groundwater and is washed away, leaving an open cavern covered only by a thin layer of ground.

Sinkholes are normal in places where rocks are made from carbonate rock, limestone, or salt beds. Human action can cause sinkholes to form as well, with groundwater that pumps construction particles that change the natural structure of the ground, as well as the patterns of the water drainage.

The more massive chasm beneath the land surface, the more panoramic the sinkhole also becomes. Sometimes, entire vehicles or houses can fall into the ground when the surface's thin layer eventually gives away.

States Experiencing Sinkhole-Induced Damage

The states experiencing the most sinkhole-induced damage in the US include Florida, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

In Florida, as reported by the Service Industry News website, more than 100 sinkholes formed in Dover during a single freeze occurrence, as the farmers were irrigating their plants excessively to shield them from the cold resulting in the groundwater levels dropping significantly.

In Israel, search teams constructed a support structure to stop the pool floor from collapsing further onto them as they searched for the missing man.

It was a complicated search, the fact that there may have been secondary tunnels linked to the sinkhole that could later collapse as well, which could be quite hazardous for the rescue teams.

Police at the scene of the incident in Israel have reported they were opening an investigation into the man's death. They also said they would look into the licensing involved in the private pool's construction.

According to reports, local police have already interrogated the owner of the home where the private pool was constructed on suspicions of "negligent manslaughter." It added that the owner had not applied for any permit before the pool's construction.

A report about the sinkhole that made a man disappear is shown on The Matrix's YouTube video below:

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