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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')y JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press Writer

GUATEMALA CITY , Guatemala - A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main.

The pit emitted foul odors, loud noises and tremors, shaking the surrounding ground. A rush of water could be heard from its depths, and authorities feared it could widen or others could open up.

Rescue operations were on hold until a firefighter, suspended from a cable, could take video and photos above the hole and officials could use the documentation to decide how to proceed.

The dead were identified as Irma and David Soyos, emergency spokesman Juan Carlos Bolanos said. Their bodies were found near the sinkhole, floating in a river of sewage.

Their father, Domingo, was still missing, according to disaster coordinator Hugo Hernandez.

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This is an old story Rocc, since this first happened some months ago ,some new information has surfaced regarding this "hole".Local and federal officials have conclusively been able to prove that this is in fact a classic"morloc" hole. It was originally a false front manhole cover that was used to occassionally snatch beggar children and unsuspecting passers-by.Through over-enthusiastic enlarging of the chamber underneath combined with the morlocs notorious habit of relieving themselves wherever,the subsurface was sufficiently weakened enough for the surface to collapse into it.Local law-enforcement have been encouraged by the drastic fall-off of missing persons reports since the collapse.