Japanese crews shift search for truck driver swallowed by sinkhole to nearby sewer pipe

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Truck cabin found in Japan sinkhole search for driver

But rescuers could not enter the sewer pipe due to water flow and high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Truck cab confirmed in sewer pipe at Saitama sinkhole site

The company that owns the truck that fell in identified through drone footage that the metal object was a part of the vehicle.

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On the 11th, Saitama Governor Motohiro Ohno revealed that the driver's seat of the truck was identified to be in a sewer pipe about 30 meters downstream from the collapsed site at a prefectural road intersection in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture. The driver may be left inside, and the fire department is considering rescue methods.

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Missing truck cabin located in sewer pipe near Saitama sinkhole

The missing cabin of a truck swallowed by a huge sinkhole that emerged at an intersection in Yashio, north of Tokyo, was located in a sewer pipe nearby, local officials said Tuesday. A search of the sewer pipe near the site in Saitama Prefecture using a drone found the truck cabin about 30 meters downstream of the sinkhole, prefectural officials said. Read full story here

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2-week search ends for trapped driver inside sinkhole in Saitama

Firefighters said they ended Sunday their search inside a sinkhole near Tokyo for a man whose truck was swallowed by it nearly two weeks ago, with attention set to switch to an underground sewage pipe. Rescuers were unable to find a trace of the 74-year-old driver remaining in the sinkhole,…

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2-week search for Japanese man shifts from sinkhole to sewage pipe

Since first forming, sinkhole grew to 40 meters wide by 15 meters deep after merging with another sinkhole - Anadolu Ajansı