The crater is approximately 32 feet wide and 20 feet deep, local media reported.
A truck and its driver were swallowed by a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool which appeared at a busy intersection in the Japanese city of Yashio on Tuesday.approximately 32 feet wide and 16 feet deep, appeared about 10 a.m. local time Motohiro Ono, the governor of the Saitama Prefecture said at a press briefing Tuesday.thought to have been caused by a crack in the Nakagawa River Basin sewer pipe.
Police told NHK that an investigation into what caused the sinkhole was currently underway. The driver was still conscious and capable of talking to the police earlier in the day, but the broadcaster later reported that rescuers could no longer communicate with him.
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