CCTV shows a security guard disappearing into a sinkhole in the Chinese city of Shenzhen

A 25-year-old man in China has died after a sinkhole opened up and swallowed him.

Yang Jiabin was walking in Shenzhen near a construction site when he fell into an 8-metre wide, 16-metre deep sinkhole that killed him, after attempts to revive him failed.

Two closed-circuit videos captured his final moments, which then went viral in China on social media and through news websites like Sina.

Authorities are not sure what caused the sinkhole but Chinese news media reports quote local residents as saying they have repeatedly complained about tremors at the nearby construction site, just metres from where the sinkhole opened up.

Earlier this year, a sinkhole nearly 300m wide opened in Guangzhou, another city in the Guangdong province.

It's not the first time a sinkhole has been captured on film in China.

In April 2012, a woman walking along a street in a Chinese city fell into a hole which suddenly opened up in the pavement.

There were more than 100 sinkholes formed in Beijing over the past two months, where poorly planned development seems to be a major factor.

Earlier this month Florida man Jeff Bush was killed after a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom.

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