TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese emergency services struggled for hours yesterday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls around 9.50 am 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.
He added that they estimate the sinkhole is about 10 metres (m) wide and six-metres deep.
“Now, we’re trying to see if we can pull up the truck using a large crane,” he said.
