Woman hospitalised after 'disappearing into cafe's basement below as she walked along a London street.

A woman has been hospitalised after she fell down a hole in a pavement as she walked along a London street this morning.

Onlookers reported hearing a loud scream before the woman, who has not been identified, 'disappeared' down the gap in the pavement outside a cafe in Fulham, south west London.

Ambulance crews were called to the Marrakech Express in North End Road at about 8.50am to help get the woman, thought to be in her mid-forties, out of the five foot by two and a half foot hole.

Passers-by reported hearing a loud scream before the woman fell into the gap and early reports suggested she had been pushing a pram, although it's now thought it was a shopping trolley.

Kate Sissons, who witnessed the fall, posted a picture on Instagram, saying: 'OMG! Poor woman and pram just disappeared down this hole on North End Rd. Shes stuck down there.'

Builder Paul Smith, 28, was walking to work when he saw a commotion outside the cafe.

He said: 'Someone had fallen through - just like a trapdoor. It's crazy. There is a huge whole in the floor and someone has fallen through the pavement.