Horrifying moment man is killed after being sucked into sinkhole that emerged under swimming pool
Britt Jones
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A video on social media showed the terrifying moment that a man was sucked into a sinkhole while swimming in a pool in Israel.
In 2022, 32-year-old Klil Kimhi had been swimming with a group of other people in Karmej Yosef in central Israel when the pool was suddenly emptied of its contents within seconds.
According to reports by Fox News, Kimhi had been attending a party hosted by his work when the incident occurred.
The footage, which was shared on Twitter, shows the sinkhole growing bigger, and swirling the pool floats into the pit.
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Inflatable animals such as a flamingo can be seen disappearing into the hole as another man slips and falls but is helped up and out of the way of the area by others who had been swimming at the time.
Almost everyone who had been in the pool was able to scramble away before disaster struck, and while one man is almost nearly taken in - though he managed to get out of the way.
However, Kimhi was confirmed by police to have died as a result of the incident.
They said at the time: "At the end of operational searches, The Police, The Fire and Rescue Services and the IDF Homefront Command located the missing man, an approximately 30-year-old resident of Tel Aviv — unfortunately he was deceased.”
The BBC reported that, Kimhi fell into the hole which was 43ft deep, leading rescue teams to take four hours in order to get to him, according to local media.
The outlet also reported that a second man was also sucked into the hole, however, he was able to get out and only suffered light injuries as a result.
Paramedic Uri Damari told The Jerusalem Post: “This is a very unusual incident.
“When I got to the scene I saw a pit that had opened at the bottom of the empty pool. People who were at the site told me that the pit opened suddenly and within a few seconds all the water of the pool was pulled in.”
A party attendee told Israel's Channel 12 that 50 people were at the party, while another claimed that six people were in the pool when the sinkhole opened up, which 'created a vortex that swept two people inside'.
Following the incident, Israeli police started an investigation which led to the arrest of the couple who'd owned the house.
The man and woman, who were in their sixties, were initially suspected of causing death by negligence, according to NBC News, before being released by the court under 'restrictive conditions of house arrest' for five days.
Israeli media reported that the couple had supposedly built the pool without proper licensing.