Authorities fear woman was swallowed by sinkhole while looking for her cat

The top of a sinkhole in the village of Marguerite, Pennsylvania., where rescuers were searching for a woman who disappeared (Pennsylvania State Police via AP)

Authorities in the US fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a village.

Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning but detected nothing.