A sinkhole, about 30 feet deep, appeared on Tannery Road in Bengaluru metro during tunnelling work just 100 metres away from the alignment of the underground tunnel of Namma Metro.
The metro officials have immediately evacuated all the residents of a building on the property where a sinkhole appeared and the building was not damaged and no one was injured.
“On Thursday during tunneling work by tunnel boring machine(TBM) Bhadra, a sink hole appeared at about 100m from Venkateshpura metro Underground station towards Tannery Road metro station at around 7.30 am,” said BL Yashwanth Chavan, BMRCL chief public relations officer.