Summary A sinkhole swallows an entire building complex in China's southern Guangdong province.
CHINA: The group of buildings was totally swallowed by the hole which appeared near the construction site of a new underground train station in Guangzhou, one of China s biggest cities.
The first building collapsed at 1620 local time (0820 GMT). The other three buildings then fell into the ten metre hole later that evening, according to China state television CCTV.
Around 300 residents from the surrounding area had to be evacuated and nearby roads were closed off.
No one was injured in the incident and an investigation was launched into what caused the hole to appear.
