Fears growing for the driver of Japan truck that swallowed the gardens while the rescue enters the 4th day – national
Fears grow for health and safety a truck driver who has now spent almost four days trapped in kindergarten in JapanAfter the road opened and swallowed the truck, he was driving.
The 74-year-old driver who was not identified, first became captured in hole when open in a traffic intersection In the town of Yashimo, directly beyond Tokyo, Tuesday morning.
He had previously been aware and communicated with rescue workers, but he did not respond from Tuesday afternoon, said Yashifumi Hashiguchi’s fire unit official.
Rescue crews worked daily to the end of man. They managed to take the truck bed from the sinkhole, but the truck cabin remains buried under the debris and soil.
The first respondents are trying to save the truck driver who fell in a cream on the street in Yashio, northeast of Tokyo, Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
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When it first formed, the top was approximately the size of the pool and about 33 feet wide and 20 feet deep. But unstable soil, leakage of water and loose fragments caused the hole to grow about four times width, according to local officials.
“The interior is spinning and Every day gets bigger“Said the officer of the sewer department of the sewer sewage Saitama prefecture for CNN.
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The hole is believed to be a rupture of the underground sewer pipe. Waste water from the damaged pipes flooded the hole, causing another sinkhole to appear on Thursday.
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According to the Guardian, the crews are now changing tactics and they started building a A 30 -meter -long ramp To hope they will allow them to reach a man.
“We plan to build a slope from a safer place, so we will be able to send heavy equipment,” said the local head of the Tetsuji Fire Department, said, said The surgery around the “extremely dangerous.”
Firefighters are working to save the truck driver after his vehicle swallowed the carousel at the intersection of the prefecting road, in the town of Yashio, the Saitama Prefecture on January 28, 2025.
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In the meantime, the soil has become so unstable in the area that residents living in about 200 nearby homes have been ordered to evacuate themselves, and 1.2 million people in the area have been asked to reduce water consumption to prevent more leakage water sewer water.
According to local editions of the Kyodo news, after the ramp is completed, heavy equipment will be taken to the hole to clean some of the waste, and rescue workers will then be able to enter the cream to continue the search.
When the driver is removed, experts will enter kindergarten and inspect the sewer system.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has ordered the inspection of sewage systems throughout the country. In one of the world’s most skilled countries than a disaster, dizziness has collected concern about infrastructure aging.
Most of the main public infrastructure of Japan was built during the rapid economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s. The Yashir’s sewage is about 40 years old.
– With a file from Associated Press
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