1 day ago · Swimming pool-sized sinkhole traps truck driver in Japan 00:51. Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near ...

1 day ago · The main body of the truck was pulled from the first sinkhole at around 1 am, the spokesman said. But the driver's cabin is still inside the hole, estimated to be about 33 feet wide -- roughly the ...

15 hours ago · TOKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on. Residents near the hole have taken shelter at a local school, and there were worries Thursday about flooding and leaking sewage water. There’s also been a renewed debate ...

1 day ago · A rescue operation is underway for a 74-year-old truck driver who was driving a vehicle that fell into a sinkhole in Yashio city, Japan. Later in the day, a second sinkhole opened nearby while ...

2 days ago · Two rescuers have reportedly been injured trying to retrieve the driver Kyodo via AP Images A large sinkhole near Tokyo has swallowed a truck with a man inside. Just before 10 a.m. local time on ...

13 hours ago · The 74-year-old man had stopped near an intersection in Saitama Prefecture when the sinkhole suddenly opened beneath the road, swallowing him with the truck, according to a witness interviewed by ...

1 day ago · Rescuers attempted to recover a truck swallowed by a massive sinkhole in Japan's city of Yashio, in Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 28. (Video: TV Tokyo via Reuters)

15 hours ago · Just after the sinkhole appeared in Yashio City, just northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning a 3-ton truck fell into it. At first the sinkhole was roughly 10 meters (33 feet) wide and 5-meters (16 ...

3 days ago · 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 Jan. 28, 2025.

2 days ago · In Japan, a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool appeared in the city of Yashio, swallowing a truck and its driver. The crater is about 32 feet wide and 20 feet deep, local media reported.