Dance floor sinkhole in Peru swallows 25 students at a graduation party
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Moment when the dance floor at the graduation party collapses and the sinkhole swallows 25 dance students in Peru
- During a prom in Peru, the dance floor collapsed creating a sinkhole
- About 25 boys and girls were jumping up and down when the ground gave way.
- There were no fatalities, but the extent of the injuries is unknown.
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The students were celebrating their graduation in Peru when the concrete dance floor collapsed, causing 25 of them to descend into a sinkhole the size of several cars.
The group of boys and girls were huddled in a tight group, jumping up and down in unison to the music when the ground cracked and a crater formed.
A video of the disaster was uploaded to TikTok on December 17 with a caption, written in Spanish: “Prom night turns into tragedy.”
The incident was covered by the Peruvian newspaper El Popular, which reported that there were no fatalities, but it is not clear if there were serious injuries.
Once the dust settled and the students were on their feet, they began to climb out of the hole.
The traumatic collapse occurred in the San Martin region of Peru, some 200 miles north of Lima, the country’s capital.
It takes a few seconds after the collapse for the students to rise to their feet and the cloud of dust and debris dissipates, revealing the smartly dressed young men, most of whom had dropped their celebratory sausage balloons.
Later, someone placed a ladder in the hole, which appeared to be about six or seven feet deep, while another man lay on the ground surrounding the hole, offering an arm to lift people up.
The young men politely allowed their long-dressed dance partners out of the pit first.
The graduating students gathered to form a compact group and began to dance up and down in unison as the music played.
In the moments after the sinkhole formed, dust filled the air.