Family's home ruined after sinkhole with 'foul smell' leaves huge hole in ground

A house leak in Ecuador caused a sinkhole to open in the floor of a house. The owner of the property said he and his wife had to constantly remove water or a "foul smell" would invade them

The family home in Ecuador was ruined thanks to a leak (

Image: Elcomercio)

One family's home was destroyed when a sinkhole opened up and ripped a huge hole in the ground.

The hole opened in the house of the Varela family in Ecuador, located in Solanda, south of Quito

The owner of the house, Carlos Varela, said a leak started in June this year and slowly got worse, resulting in a catastrophic problem in his house.

He called the Quito Potable Water Company to fix a leak in the room used as storage and it was initially fixed, but the problems unfortunately continued.

As the hole continued to grow, Carlos and his wife were forced to draw water from buckets

Carlos had to open a wall in his own house (

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Elcomercio)

As the problem worsened, Carlos had to make adjustments to the house, including breaking the wall of the house facing the street so that he could drain the water from the house.

"We stopped attending meetings held by the municipality because now it is our priority to drain the water if we don't, a foul smell comes from the hole," he said in El Comercio.

Local residents have also complained about the cracking of house walls that began with the construction of the nearby metro station...