Massive sinkhole swallows truck in Japan, trapping driver inside
CBSN
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 around 9:50 am (0050 GMT) 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.
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