Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the capital Tokyo,

Efforts to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole that opened up near Tokyo on Jan 28 has been suspended again, according to Japanese media. The authorities said on Jan 30 that additional cave-ins at the sinkhole in Saitama prefecture have made the area dangerously unstable.

The driver was able to talk with rescuers but they retreated after the area around the hole became unstable, a spokesperson said.

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