TOKYO, Jan 28 — Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City,...
Firefighters work to rescue a truck driver after his vehicle was swallowed up by a sinkhole at a prefectural road intersection, in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 28, 2025. — Jiji Press handout pic via AFPas a first-time user . Exclusively for Malay Mail readers: Use codeTOKYO, Jan 28 — Japan ese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a sinkhole near Tokyo.
Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls around 9.50am saying that a road had caved in and a lorry had fallen. “We have been carrying out a rescue operation ever since,” a fire department spokesperson told AFP around seven hours later.“Now, we’re trying to see if we can pull up the truck using a large crane,” he said.The driver was able to talk with rescuers until around 1pm but they retreated after the area around the hole became unstable, the spokesperson said.
The team initially planned to rescue the driver by going into the sinkhole, but two members were mildly injured while attempting to do so. A sewer system runs through the vicinity of the intersection, and the cause of the road collapse is under investigation, Kyodo News reported. — AFP
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