Rescuers in Japan try to reach a trapped driver in synchols throughout the days

Emergency workers are fighting to save a truck driver swallowed by a sinkhole in a city two days ago in the north of Tokyo.

74-year-old men, Sayama Prefecture, Sinkhole suddenly entered the road at once, suddenly swallowed him with a truck, stopped absorbing him for the interview of the local media.

The driver survived immediately after the truck sinking into the hole, and the public broadcast NHK responded to nearby rescuers. However, after a few hours, a mud in the hole, pressing the mud, dirty and demolition, went off and buried him. The man did not respond to further attempts to contact.

Rescue work was ink with the fragility of the earth around the hole. A second hole near Tuesday, formed a larger sinkhole, combined with the first Thursday. The collapsed area, the diameter of about 65 feet.

A rescue department official on Thursday was deepening in the hole and the driver of the truck that appeared in the trap, it was reported. “The situation is extremely dangerous and we cannot send many rescuers,” he said. “We will try to save it as soon as possible.”

Firefighters consider the use of heavy machinery to clean the dirt and garbage to access the trapped driver. On Wednesday, a large crane was able to lift a part of the truck in the surface, but the driver was not found in this part of the vehicle.

The collapse of the local authorities said that the nearby treatment plant was triggered by the explosion sewer tube under the road transporting sewage. Pipeline damage asked to give 1.2 million residents for 1.2 million inhabitants to avoid water use in the area.

According to one official of the site, regular inspections of the sewerage system under the road every five years did not need to repair immediately due to Saitama’s official. In the most recent check, some corrosion made in the financial year 2021 were detected, but an emergency was not considered.

In response to the incident, Japan’s land, infrastructure, transport and tourism called for emergency examinations of similar infrastructure, especially large-scale wastewater treatment plants.