A GIGANTIC sinkhole has buried a railway and swallowed up nearly a dozen parked cars on the streets of Baltimore.

CRATER: A street in Baltimore was left in ruins after a monster sinkhole appeared [AP]

Large parts of East 26th Street collapsed into the sinkhole in the US state of Maryland on Wednesday afternoon.
Gas supplies to the area and have been cut off and some residents have been evacuated from their homes as a precaution.
The freak event is likely to have been caused by heavy rain which pounded the area for several days.
One eyewitness managed to capture the moment a parked car slide into the mammoth crater on video.

EMERGENCY: People were evacuated and the area's gas was cut off after the sinkhole appeared [AP]

“I saw cars flipped over, falling down, rocks falling. The cars just kept falling”

Another said: "We stood back and within a 10 second period of time the ground opened up, the cars slid down and the whole retaining wall gave way.
"People were screaming and crying, it was pretty traumatic."
Fourteen-year-old Jeremiah McNair said: "I saw cars flipped over, falling down, rocks falling. The cars just kept falling."
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said it was too soon to say what caused the collapse.