The sinkhole, which now measures 40m (131ft) in diameter, opened at a road intersection in Yashio city near Tokyo. It is believed to be caused by a sewer rupture. Search teams are unable to enter the ...

Thirty people were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared in Godstone, a village in ...

Emergency inspections of sewer facilities are underway across Japan to check for deterioration that might lead to road subsidence following a ...

Reports of suspicious phone calls and home visits by scammers posing as government officials have climbed since the sinkhole ...

Tokyo (AFP) – 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, a fire department official said Wednesday. Rescuers have ...

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo two weeks ago. The sinkhole suddenly opened up at an intersection in the ...

At least one person’s remains could be inside a truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan and found ... cabin that got sucked into a chasm near Tokyo, officials said, confirming that drone ...

Tokyo (AFP) – A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, highlights the risk posed by Japan's ageing pipes.

Similar sinkholes have appeared in other areas in Japan. Water is gushing out of a 2-meter-wide hole which opened in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. The hole is believed to have formed as water ...

Dozens were evacuated and at least one garden was swallowed by a sinkhole in a southern English village on Monday, local reports say. The sinkhole, which formed in the village of Godstone in ...

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo two weeks ago. The sinkhole suddenly opened up at an intersection in the ...