{
  "id": 12826449,
  "title": "Chennai road caves in, car plunges into 10-foot sinkhole near Tidel Park",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/chennai-road-caves-in-car-plunges-into-10-foot-sinkhole-near-tidel",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T08:27:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/chennai-road-caves-in-car-plunges-into-10-foot-sinkhole-near-tidel-park-1.500702921"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A section of Thiruvanmiyur Road near Tidel Park in Chennai suddenly collapsed on Thursday morning, sending a car plunging into a roughly 10-foot-deep sinkhole and causing major disruption to traffic. Visuals from the scene showed the car overturned inside the large crater after the road surface gave way without warning. Car topples in OMR Chennai after road caves in pic.twitter.com/TWx4Zy017f —…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Chennai Road Collapse: Car Plunges Into 10-Foot-Deep Sinkhole Near Tidel Park, Two Escape Unhurt - WATCH",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/chennai-road-collapse-car-plunges-into-10-foot-deep-sinkhole-near",
        "published": "2026-10-08T07:44:30.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu",
        "title": "Car falls into sinkhole as road caves in near Chennai’s Tidel Park",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/car-falls-into-sinkhole-as-road-caves-in-near-chennais-tidel-park",
        "published": "2026-10-08T08:12:55.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}