A young woman who was texting while she walked on a pavement in China was lucky to escape serious injury when the ground below her collapsed and she fell into a deep hole.

Her plight was noticed by a taxi driver who came to her aid and climbed down the hole to help her until firemen arrived. Their rescue was complicated by the fact that more sections of the pavement collapsed. The hole is believed to have been created by water erosion from a burst underground pipe.

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