Tokyo: Japanese emergency services fought for hours on Tuesday ( January 28 ) to save the truck driver who had crashed into a sinkhole close to Tokyo.
Officials in Yashio City, Saitama, received calling around 9.50am saying that a path had caved in and a vehicle had fallen.
Around seven days later, a fire department spokesperson told AFP that” we have been conducting a rescue activity.”
He added that they believed the hole to be 6 meters deep and 10 meters large.
” Then, we’re trying to see if we may take up the vehicle using a huge crane”, he said.
” There is chance that the needle does collapse”.
The pilot remained in contact with volunteers until around 1 p.m., but the spokesperson claimed that the driver retreated after the region around the hole became unpredictable.
Initial plans for the team to save the driver were to plunge into the crater, but two members suffered minor injuries in the process.
A drainage system runs through the region of the crossroads, and the cause of the street decline is under research, Kyodo News reported.