Video captures China sinkhole tragedy A 25-year-old man in China has died after a sinkhole opened up and swallowed him. Yang Jiabin was walking in Shenzhen near a construction site when he fell into an 8-metre wide, 16-metre deep sinkhole that killed him, after attempts to revive him failed. Two closed-circuit videos captured his final moments, which then went viral in China on social media and through news websites like Sina. It's not the first time a sinkhole has been captured on film in China. In April 2012, a woman walking along a street in a Chinese city fell into a hole which suddenly opened up in the pavement. A screen grab from security vision which reportedly shows a man being swallowed by a sinkhole in Shenzen, China. A sinkhole opens up and swallows a girl as she walks down the street in China There were more than 100 sinkholes formed in Beijing over the past two months, where poorly planned development seems to be a major factor. Earlier this month Florida man Jeff Bush was killed after a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom. A sinkhole in a construction site in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province. The sinkhole, which caused the death of a guard might have been caused by heavy rains and the collapsing of old water pipes running beneath the surface. Read more: When sinkholes turn deadly