A firefighter has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death of his 23-month-old son who was left in a pick-up truck for eight hours.

Efforts to find the body of a man swallowed by a sinkhole under his Florida home were called off amid fears that the building would collapse on rescuers.

In a matter of seconds, the earth opened under Jeff Bush’s bedroom and swallowed him up like something from a horror film. About the only thing left was the TV cable running down into the hole.

A man is missing after a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa, Florida.