Massive sinkhole swallows truck in Japan, trapping driver inside

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 around 9:50 am (0050 GMT) saying that a road had caved in and a lorry had fallen.

"We have been carrying out a rescue operation ever since," a fire department spokesperson told AFP around seven hours later.