Brave migrant workers rescue woman from Singapore sinkhole

Migrant workers in Singapore have been praised for their quick action in saving a woman after her car was swallowed by a sinkhole.

Social media videos show a 3-metre (10-foot) deep sinkhole suddenly appearing on Saturday evening along Tanjong Katong Road east of the citystate, causing a black Mazda to topple sideways into the hole.

Immediately, nearby construction workers can be seen rushing to her rescue. One worker leans into the sinkhole as two more workers approach the edge. As the driver emerges from the cavity, four or five workers pull her out.

Construction site foreman Pitchai Udaiyappan Subbiah was working at a Public Utilities Board (PUB) site close by when he heard a loud sound, The Straits Times newspaper reported.

Rushing to the scene, he saw “there was one car, and one madam was inside the car. I was thinking: ‘somebody has dropped inside, I want to help’”, the 46-year-old told reporters on Sunday.

Some of the workers had wanted to jumped into the hole to help the woman up but Subbiah advised them not to. “I said to my workers, you go down you also cannot climb up,” he told Channel News Asia.