Terrifying photos from the at-risk city show rows of homes right at the edge of these growing sinkholes.
THOUSANDS of people are at risk of losing their homes as a terrifying sinkhole forced a Brazilian city into a state of emergency.
Shocking images from the city of Buriticupu, in the northeast of the Amazon Rainforest, show how the area is being swallowed up by the earth.
The secretary of public works in Buriticupu, Lucas Conceiçao, said the municipality did not have enough money to find a solution to these terrifying holes.
Authorities in the city were forced to issue an emergency decree earlier this month in the face of the sinkholes growing threat.
