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

A GIANT sinkhole is threatening to eat up Sarah Lewis’s family home in Godstone, Surrey. It’s a surreal situation, to say the ...

Rescuers were on Wednesday trying to save a Japanese truck driver stuck in a large sinkhole for more than 24 hours as local residents were evacuated over fears gas pipes could break. Emergency ...

Saitama Prefecture officials said the search for a missing 74-year-old truck stuck in a large sinkhole shifted to an underground sewage pipe on Sunday.

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

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 ...

Japanese emergency services struggled for hours on Tuesday to rescue the driver of a truck that plunged into a massive sinkhole near Tokyo. Authorities in Yashio City, Saitama, received calls ...

A driver whose truck was swallowed by a sinkhole two weeks ago is yet to be found, as authorities say it could take three ...

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 been struggling ...

A truck cabin that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan two weeks ago has been located in a nearby sewer pipe, authorities ...

A truck cab that fell into a widening sinkhole in Yashio, Japan, late last month has been found. Officials believe the body ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an elderly truck ...