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 ...

YASHIO, Saitama Prefecture--Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole here. Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono visited ...

The 40-foot- by 40-foot sinkhole, the size of a four-story building, opened up at about 7:30 a.m. in the shoulder of the eastbound lane, just north of Wharton, then reached the far righthand lane.

Within a few minutes of their arrival crews witnessed a car fall into a sinkhole that had developed ... in the process of finding out which buildings were impacted by the flooding.

That sinkhole was roughly the size and depth of a four-story building and kept the highway closed for four days. It was found to have been caused by the collapse of an abandoned mineshaft ...

Rescue efforts to save a truck driver who fell into the hole entered the fifth day. Read more at straitstimes.com.