It’s déjà vu time as two sinkholes appear on successive days at Chinese construction site

This is the moment the ground gave way on a construction site in Guangdong province on Thursday morning - for the second day in a row.

The two holes formed in exactly the same area of a subway building site in the city of Dongguan, but no injuries have been reported following the subsidence, mainland media say.

The second hole, measuring about 300 square metres, appeared at 10am on Thursday at the site of the new intercity railway, which will link Dongguan with the neighbouring city of Huizhou, the Guangdong-based Southern Metropolis News reported.

A video taken by a witness shows an enlarged second hole and a section of the road that had collapsed.

The hole had formed in the same place where a van fell into a 80 square metre-hole after the ground subsided on Wednesday morning, the newspaper reported.