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Footage onboard Shropshire narrowboat captures moment canal collapsed into sinkhole
Watch the moment a pair of boaters raced to safety as a 160ft sinkhole opened up in Shropshire on Monday (22 December). Emergency services declared a major incident after receiving reports of a sinkhole opening up in the early hours of the morning, as millions of gallons of water gushed onto nearby land. Two boats were swallowed up by the chasm. After being woken up by a loud crash, YouTubers Paul and Anthony from Narrowboat Life Unlocked made a quick exit from their vessel, after “everything inside the boat started falling over”. Footage shows the fast-moving water being drawn into the sinkhole. Back in their boat following the “embankment failure”, Paul became emotional as he shared that a man inside one of the sunken boats, Bob, managed to escape.
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independent.co.uk
More than 10 rescued after huge sinkhole opens in canal in ‘major incident’
People are being asked to avoid the incident on the Shropshire Union Canal in Chemistry, Shropshire
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bbc.com
Major incident declared over Shropshire canal 'sinkhole'
A multi-agency response is under way at the scene in Whitchurch, with the public asked to stay away.
