One man was killed and another injured when a sinkhole opened up in the bottom of a swimming pool during a party at a house in Karmei Yosef, a settlement in the Judean foothills, or Shfela, in Israel on Thursday, July 21,
officials said.A 32-year-old man named in Israeli reports as Klil Kimhi was sucked into the hole by receding waters. His body was found after a complex four-hour operation, according to
Israeli media. The recovery operation was complicated by fears that the unstable ground could produce further collapses,
reports said.Israel’s national ambulance service, Magen David Adom,
said a second man, aged 34, managed to escape and sustained only minor injuries. Credit:
ZAKA/Israel Fire and Rescue Authority via Storyful