A road in Greater Manchester is still closed ten days after being hit by sudden flooding . A burst pipe caused a residential street and nearby cemetery to become waterlogged, causing major damage, on August 18.

United Utilities said a burst pipe caused the flooding of Langley Road. Cars were forced to turn around as video footage showed the street, in Pendlebury, heavily flooded with rising water seen nearing homes and the car park outside a business.

The nearby Agecroft cemetery was also waterlogged with a path equally flooded, but much of the area remained fully open.

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United Utilities engineers were called out to the scene and apologised for the inconvenience, with an investigatio

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