Japanese rescuers do not know whether the driver is still alive, who, along with his truck, fell into a 15-meter hole.
The incident occurred on Tuesday January 28 in Yashio, northeast of Tokyo. Attempts to get a 74-year-old driver last the third day. Doctors are afraid that the critical survival threshold has already been passed.
The man fell with a car with a width of 40 meters and a depth of 15 meters. Now firefighters are lowering into the pit of the ramp to get to the victim. The funnel expands right before our eyes and is filled with soil water.
Experts suggest Writes EURONEWS, That the crater formed on the site of old sewer joints. The representative of the fire service Yoshifumi Khasiguch says that the driver talked with the rescuers shortly after the fall, but in recent days he did not vote.
Rescuers launched a drone into the funnel, but he did not give the expected information. The head of the fire service Yashio admitted: “The situation is extremely dangerous.” People living in a nearby houses, within a radius of 200 meters from the funnel, were called upon to reduce the use of the water supply so as not to nourish the stocks of underground and wastewater.
The Ministry of Earth, the infrastructure and transport of Japan ordered a national verification of sewer systems.
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