A body has been recovered from the cabin of a truck that fell into a massive sinkhole that opened in the city of Yashio, north of Tokyo, in January. Police and other authorities believe it is the body of the missing driver.
The cave-in occurred at an intersection, leaving the 74-year-old driver unaccounted for. The truck’s cabin was later found in a sewage pipe.
On Thursday, firefighters and other workers entered the pipe for the first time since the accident and found what appeared to be a body in the driver’s seat of the cabin. They have concluded that there is a low risk of follow-up disasters.
On Friday morning, firefighters and police conducted a full-scale search and recovered the body from the truck’s cabin.
The Saitama prefectural government plans to retrieve the cabin and begin restoring the area around the sinkhole.
AloJapan.com