2 Weeks After Sinkhole Swallowed Truck, Japan Locates It

Two weeks after a giant hole opened up on a Japanese street and swallowed a truck and its 74-year-old driver, rescue crews have managed to locate the truck's cab in a 16-foot-wide sewer pipe nearby. As the BBC reports, rescuers had previously pulled the truck's bed from the 130-foot-wide sinkhole in Yashio, but the cab and the driver were pulled deeper into the hole and contact was lost with the man.

Drone images indicate there's a body inside the cab, but officials won't be able to get to it until they install a bypass pipe to handle the water flow—which Kyodo News notes could take three months, while fixing the sinkhole has a timeline of two to three years. Officials had asked local residents to restrict their water usage in order to cut back on the flow of water through the pipes. (More sinkhole stories.)