GEORGE TOWN: A 3m-deep sinkhole appeared on Burmah Road after a sewerage pipe below ground burst and washed away the soil beneath.
It began as a hole on the road on Wednesday and when Penang Island City Council (MBPP) engineers discovered that the leaked sewage had created a large cavity below, they immediately ordered the road closed.
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