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Crews in Japan are trying to reach a truck driver trapped for a week in a massive sinkhole as concern grows over the ...

To report a sinkhole, residents can call the city at 270-393-3628. Jack covers city government for the Daily News. Originally from Simpson County, he attended Western Kentucky University and ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

TOKYO (AP) — A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on. Residents near the hole ...

Rescuers were on Wednesday trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a large sinkhole for more than 24 hours as local residents were evacuated over fears gas pipes could break. Emergency ...

YASHIO, Saitama — The space between the two sinkholes in a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, collapsed early on Jan 30 morning and created one larger hole, estimated to be more ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

Jan. 30 (UPI) --A sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a dump truck whole on Tuesday has now doubled in width after combining with a second sinkhole as rescue workers continued their dig to reach ...

Rescuers were on Wednesday trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a large sinkhole for more than 24 hours as local residents were evacuated over fears gas pipes could break. Emergency ...

A truck that fell into a sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to ...