Rome street collapses, leaving giant hole

ROME, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A giant hole opened up on a Rome street on Thursday, leaving two parked cars teetering on its edges, local media reported.

Newspaper Il Foglio tweeted footage showing a fissure in the concrete rapidly widening and collapsing, leaving the two cars with their wheels hanging over the edge.

No one was reported injured in the collapse. Police and firefighters later removed the two vehicles before they could fall in.

The hole that developed on a residential street in the southern part of the Italian capital was three by five meters wide and six meters deep, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

In February, another sinkhole opened up, prompting the evacuation of 20 families from two residential buildings in the northern Monte Mario neighborhood, located on a hilltop overlooking the capital.

No one was injured in the collapse of a piece of the street, which sank ten meters and took seven parked cars down with it.

The city administration of populist Five Star Movement Mayor Virginia Raggi has promised a "Marshall Plan" to fix Rome's streets, which are plagued with potholes. Enditem