Huge sinkhole swallows car in Italy

The parked car fell into the sinkhole in Catania, Italy

Video shows the huge sinkhole that appeared in the Italian city of Catania this week.

After heavy rain hit the Sicilian city, a sinkhole five metres deep opened up in the middle of a street.

One unlucky car owner saw his vehicle plummet into the bottom of the gaping hole that appeared.

Luckily however, the driver reportedly managed to escape just moments before the car fell.

Fire fighters salvaged the car, using a crane to hoist it out of the large sinkhole.

The UK recently experienced similar drama when a sinkhole in St. Albans stretched to 20 metres wide.

This month over 175,000 litres of concrete were pumped into the hole that left around 50 homes without power.