A sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a driver and his truck in Yashio City, Japan on Monday morning.

A fire department official said the driver was ... a department spokesperson told CBS News. Saitama Prefecture Gov. Motohiro Ono said at a news briefing that rescuing the driver is the primary ...

A truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, ...

The sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly ...

It was previously reported that police received an emergency call just before 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Jan. 28, about a sinkhole that opened up at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama.

Saitama, received calls around 9:50 a.m. (0050 GMT) saying that a road had caved in and a lorry had fallen. "We have been carrying out a rescue operation ever since," a fire department ...

For now, the Saitama region is asking its 1.2 million residents to refrain ... he was "nowhere in sight as the hole deepened", a local fire department official was quoted by local media as saying. "It ...

A large sinkhole swallowed a truck Tuesday after appearing at an intersection near Tokyo, with local authorities working ...

The massive sinkhole appeared in Yashio at around 10am local time on Tuesday, Saitama prefecture governor ... according to a fire department official. Aerial TV footage showed a second sinkhole ...

SAITAMA—The Saitama prefectural parks and ... It was also learned that festival organizers had not been told about the rules on fire use at the park. Although the Warabi-based group received ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a Japan sinkhole that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo ...