Report from Tokyo and Singapore
Japanese rescue officers are trying to pull out truck drivers from the expanded sinking holes on Tuesday.
The collapse hole appeared in the city of Yashiio, a founding prefecture near the capital of Tokyo, and appeared.
Rescue operations were hindered by the collapse of the road, and authorities ordered many households in the area to evacuate their homes.
According to local media, a 74 -year -old driver lasted the rescuer on Tuesday afternoon.
The urgent crew was able to remove the truck bed from the pool -sized depression hole, but the driver’s cabin was buried under the soil and debris.
The width of about 10m (33 feet), 5m deep, first appeared in the road junction on Tuesday morning.
It is thought to have been caused by the underground sewage tube rupture.
Authorities stated that the second hole appeared on Thursday due to the wastewater from the damaged pipe overflowed in the hole.
The video video shows a signboard of a restaurant and a restaurant that falls into its collapse.
After that, the road collapsed further, merged the two sinking holes to become a 20m width crater, further complicated.
The huge depression also contains a gas pipeline, promoting potential leakage fears. Authorities have issued an evacuation order for 200 households in the surrounding area.
They are also urging the residents in the city to use less water.
ReutersBecause many people have aging sewage pipeline infrastructure, Japanese cities are becoming more and more common.
In 2016, a huge hole in Fukuoka swallowed the streets of Fukuoka and destroyed power, water and transportation. No serious injury has been reported.
In August last year, a search for a woman who disappeared in the paved hole in the city center of Kuala Lumpur was canceled a week later.
Authorities thought it was “too dangerous” to continue to develop divers on underground sewer networks with strong flow and hard debris.
