Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Fears are increasing for the health and safety of a truck driver who now spent four days besieged in a basin in Japan, after he opened the road and swallowed the truck he was driving.
The 74 -year -old, whose identity was not identified, became trapped for the first time in the pelvis when he opened at a crowded intersection in Yashimo, outside Tokyo, on Tuesday morning.
He was conscious and communicated with rescue workers earlier, but he had not responded since Tuesday afternoon, according to Yashio Yusio Yusivomi Hashjuchi.
The rescue crews work around the clock to reach the man. They were able to recover the truck bed from the pelvis, but the truck cabin was still buried under the debris and soil.
The first respondents are trying to save a truck driver who fell in a basin on a street in Yashio, northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
Kenichiro Kojima / Kyodo News via AP
When it was first formed, the sink was about the size of the pool, its width is about 33 feet and a depth of 20 feet. But local employees are unstable land, water pipelines and loose debris, caused the growth of the opening about four times.
“The interior wanders and It becomes larger every dayAn official from the Sewerage Business Department in Saitama Governorate told CNN.
Get national news
As for the news that affects Canada and around the world, he participated in the urgent news alerts that were delivered directly when it occurs.
It is believed that the hole was caused by a torn wastewater tube underground. The wastewater was flooded from the damaged tube, causing the second pelvic to appear on Thursday.
According to The Guardian, the crews are now replacing the tactics, and began building a A 30 -meter slope They hope to allow them to reach a man.
“We are planning to build a slope from a safer spot so that we can The process is “very dangerous”.
Firefighters work to save a truck driver after he swallowed his car with a sink basin at the intersection of a conservative road, in Yashio, Saitama on January 28, 2025.
Jiji Press / AFP via Getty Images
Meanwhile, the land has become so unstable in the region that residents who live in about 200 nearby homes have been requested, and 1.2 million people were requested in the area to reduce water consumption, to prevent more sewage water leaked from entering the hole.
According to the Kyodo Newsletter, as soon as the slope is completed, heavy equipment will be pushed to the hole to clarify some debris and rescue workers will be able to enter the basin to continue the search.
When the driver takes out, experts will enter the pelvis and examine the sewage system.
The Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport has ordered the country’s level of inspection of sewage systems. In one of the most disaster countries in the world, the basin raised concerns about infrastructure aging.
Most of the general infrastructure in Japan was built during rapid economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s. Yashiro is about 40 years old.
– With the Associated Press file
& Copy 2025 Global News, a Division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
