Woman plunges 8 feet down into a sinkhole in London
She was walking past the Marrakech Express cafe on North End Road in Fulham, London, at around 8:30 a.m. Thursday when she fell into the chasm, the UK's Evening Standard reported.
Initially it was believed that the unidentified woman plummeted into the hole while pushing a baby inside a stroller. But it later emerged that it was just a shopping cart.
Witnesses said cafe staff went down to their building's basement to free the woman and bring her back up to street level.
"The pavement collapsed earlier so they had put the tables and chairs around the hole to stop people walking near it," one onlooker told the Standard.
"She went to go around it and she fell. But when they rescued her she was as good as gold. She didn't have a baby with her. No one was really injured," he added.
The victim was not seriously injured and sat drinking a coffee outside to recover. Paramedics then arrived and she was taken to Charing Cross Hospital for treatment.
Her current condition is not known.
Local workers said there'd been a dip in the sidewalk "for some time."
Hammersmith & Fulham Council is investigating the incident.
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