Japan sink grows up to almost Olympic length of the pool; The driver is still absent

YashioJapan-workers of emergency situations in Japan began to build a ramp on January 31 to try to get to the 74-year-old truck driver, which was not heard since its vehicle swallowed the sink this week.

The cavity expanded to 40 m across, almost the length of the Olympic basin, since the opening in the city north of Tokyo on January 28 in the morning, officials said.

A growing hole can be the result of corrosion sewer pipes, according to Yashio.

“This is an extremely dangerous condition,” said the local firefighter of the Tetzudzhi Sato fire at the intersection of traffic, where dozens of rescuers work around the clock.

“We plan to build a slope (to access the hole) from a safer place so we can send heavy equipment,” he said.

He added that the groundwater was flowing inside and that the hole “continues the cave”.

There was no communication with the driver from about noon on January 28, with the soil and other garbage, which now cover the cabin of their truck in Yashio.

Washing walls

Pierced pipes “potentially allowed the surrounding soil to arrive underground and hollow space,” – said AFP Daisuke Tsutsui, a prefectural official of the site, January 30.

The authorities hoped to complete the inclination on January 30, but a local official said it could take several days.

The operation is exacerbated by the inner walls of the hole – now about 10 m deep – continuing to collapse, preventing rescuers from staying long.

Initially, the hole with a diameter was about five meters, but since then it has been combined with a much larger cavity that opened during a rescue operation on January 28 at night.

As the sink expands, heavy pieces of asphalt have fallen from time to time, preventing rescuers from going near the abyss.

It also made a dangerous placement of heavy equipment nearby.

1.2 million people living in the area were asked to reduce shower and laundry to prevent sewage from leaking even more.

“It is difficult to use toilets, but we ask to use less water as much as possible,” the official said.

Some sewage waters in the area have been collected and released to the adjacent river to reduce the drain into the hole.

“It feels quite abnormal that the search takes so long. Interestingly, if he could be rescued much earlier, “said Mr. such a crust, a local factory worker, January 30.

“I’m afraid to go by,” 51-year-old added. AFP

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