A massive hole that has suddenly appeared in a field has been dubbed the “gate to hell” by worried locals. The hole appeared overnight in a farmer’s field near the village of Neledino in the Shatkovsky District of central Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast region. It measures 32 meters (105 feet) across and is 50 meters (164 feet) deep –
enough to swallow a 16 story building. Police were called to the scene after they were alerted by the worried farmer. Cops taped off an area around the hole to prevent people from going too close in case it gets bigger and they fell in. A police spokesman said: “The ground collapsed in an agricultural field, which belongs to a private farmer, and is only two kilometers (1.2 miles) away from nearby homes. READ MORE
