VIDEO: Turkish man falls into a giant sinkhole

Smoking is bad for your health! Shop owner plunges into a 20ft sinkhole and is struck by a vending machine after he steps outside for a cigarette

  • Shop keeper Omer Kacagan was smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone 
  • Suddenly, the ground underneath his feet disappears leaving a 20ft sink hole
  • Kacagan avoids serious injury despite having a vending machine fall on him  

This is the moment a shop owner talks on the phone while smoking a cigarette outside his store and the ground collapses underfoot, sending a vending machine tumbling on him in the 20-foot sinkhole.

The incident was filmed in the neighbourhood of Kadokoy in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul, and the video has been widely shared on social networks.

According to reports, the shop owner, named as Omer Kacagan, was talking on the phone in front of his store when the ground suddenly gave way underfoot, sending him tumbling into the sinkhole.

Shop keeper Omer Kacagan was talking on the phone outside his store in Kadokoy in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul when the ground gave way

Kacagan was two feet from the vending machine when a sink hole swallowed everything 

Amazingly Omer Kacagan is uninjured despite falling 20 feet into the sink hole

The man explained that he was talking on the phone during a quiet moment in the shop and said he fell about 20 feet.

Despite claiming that a vending machine fell on him in the hole, he said he only suffered minor injuries and was rescued by the fire brigade within some 25 minutes.

Kacagan told local media: ‘I was talking on the phone in front of my business because there were no customers. All of a sudden, the ground I stepped on collapsed under my feet. I fell about six metres.

‘Meanwhile, a drinks machine fell with me. Fellow shopkeepers and bystanders reported the incident to the necessary authorities, and I was rescued by firefighters around 25 minutes later.’

It is unclear what caused the ground to collapse and if the local authorities are investigating the matter.

Workers later used a CAT digger  to raise the vending machine from the hole 

Local authorities are investigating the cause of the collapse and whether other locations are at risk

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