Two men were boiled alive today when their Lada car suddenly submerged into a sink hole of scorching water that opened up in a Russian city.

The pair were trapped in the vehicle in Penza and died 'almost immediately'.

Distressing pictures showed their bodies being lifted by crane from the 167F water alongside wreckage of their Lada Largus car.

A burst hot water pipe under a car park was seen as the cause of the horror.

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The Lada Largus is hauled from the steaming sink hole in the city of Penza on Tuesday. Two men were inside the car, both had been killed

The dead men are seen with their arms outstretched lying in the road after their car was pulled out of the hole today

The steaming wreckage of the Lada is seen in the middle of the road today after it plunged into a sink hole full of hot water

In Russia hot water is piped to work and residential buildings for heating during the severe winters.

'What an horrendous way to die - one moment you are driving a car, the next underground drowning in hot water,' said one woman.

The dead men were not named.

The local Ministry of Emergencies said: 'A car fell as a result of the ground collapsing.

In Russia hot water is piped to work and residential buildings for heating during the severe winters (pictured: police and emergency crews at the scene today)

Steam engulfs the car inside the hole in Penza today. 'What an horrendous way to die - one moment you are driving a car, the next underground drowning in hot water,' said one woman

Emergency crews hailed the car out using a winch and bodies were seen beside the vehicle

The local Ministry of Emergencies said: 'A car fell as a result of the ground collapsing. Sadly people were killed' (pictured: an inspector looks at the car today)

The hole is surrounded by barricades today during the operation to remove the car from the deadly sink hole

'Sadly people were killed.'

A journalist from Penza Vzglyad local news website said: 'Another car drove over the same spot minutes before the accident.

'The driver noticed ground beginning to steam - and quickly drove off.

'Then these two men came.

A winch is attached to the front of the cat ahead of it being hauled out of the hole today

The car inside the steaming hole in the city of Penza in Russia's western Oblast region

A blue plastic sheet covers one of the men after he was hauled out of the wreckage today

A blue sheet covers one of the victims after he was pulled out of the wreckage today

'They parked - and the asphalt collapsed right under them.'

There was an outpouring of anger with the local authorities on social media.

Senior officials were at the site of the tragedy.