Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40 metres wide.

The unnamed 74-year-old male driver plummeted into the hole when the ground suddenly collapsed at an intersection in Yashio ...

A sinkhole opened up in the middle of an intersection in Japan on Tuesday and, unfortunately, a truck and its 74-year-old driver were swallowed during the dramatic incident. He is still trapped down ...

Emergency teams trying to rescue a truck driver trapped for days in a huge sinkhole in a road north of Tokyo will take ...

The chasm has prompted authorities to evacuate hundreds of people in the surrounding area, while emergency responders ...

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...

Japanese authorities urge evacuation as a massive sinkhole in Saitama grows, hampering rescue efforts to free an elderly truck driver.

The Japanese sinkhole near Tokyo continued to grow on Friday as emergency crews continued their plan to install a temporary ...

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a ...

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More than a million people in Japan have been told to cut back on showers and laundry to help rescuers reach a pensioner ...