Workers evacuated after large sinkhole opens over Sydney tunnel construction site

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Specialist crews say cause of sinkhole unclear after nearly 20-metre wide collapse in Rockdale industrial park above M6 motorway tunnelling works

A large sinkhole has opened at the site of construction work on motorway tunnels in Sydney’s south, prompting workers to be evacuated from an office building.

An area nearly 20 metres wide collapsed overnight in an industrial park in on West Botany Street in Rockdale, 2 kilometres from Sydney airport, above tunnelling works on the M6 motorway.

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