{"id":74435,"date":"2025-09-24T22:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/sep\/24\/sinkhole-swallows-part-of-street-in-front-of-bangkok-hospital-video"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:17:41","slug":"sinkhole-swallows-part-of-street-in-front-of-bangkok-hospital-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74435","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole swallows part of street in front of Bangkok hospital \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large sinkhole opened up outside a hospital in the Thai capital on Wednesday. Social media footage shows power lines being pulled down into the 50-metre-deep hole and vehicles teetering on the edge. Officials said there were no casualties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Suriyachai Rawiwan, the director of Bangkok&#8217;s disaster prevention department, told the news agency AFP that the collapse, which forced streets to be evacuated, was likely to be linked to recent heavy rain and a leaky pipe<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/sep\/24\/sinkhole-swallows-part-of-street-in-front-of-bangkok-hospital-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large sinkhole opened up outside a hospital in the Thai capital on Wednesday. Social media footage shows power lines being pulled down into the 50-metre-deep hole and vehicles teetering on the edge. Officials said there were no casualties.Suriyachai &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,2715,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-sinkholes","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74435\/revisions\/74436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}