The sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a sinkhole in Japan that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo area, national officials confirmed. The crater formed at a busy ...

Saitama Prefecture officials said the search for a missing 74-year-old truck stuck in a large sinkhole shifted to an ...

Rescuers were on Wednesday trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a large sinkhole for more than 24 hours as local residents were evacuated over fears gas pipes could break. Emergency ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened.

A driver whose truck was swallowed by a sinkhole two weeks ago is yet to be found, as authorities say it could take three ...

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A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...