Japanese drone finds truck cabin swallowed by sewage puddles with “insiders”
Fire Department officials said Wednesday that at least one person’s body may have been found in the sewer after two weeks of searching in a truck cabin swallowed in a sewage puddle in Japan.
Officials said the body of the 74-year-old driver who disappeared from the truck might be inside the cabin and was caught in a chasm near Tokyo, and he said the drone images captured something that might be “human”. Two weeks ago, the truck slid into a sewage puddle near the Japanese capital.
It is not clear whether the body is the missing driver’s body.
According to local fire department official Tomonori Nakazawa, “After experts analyzed the photos taken with a drone, they said there was a truck’s cabin in the photo and they could not rule out what seemed to be inside. Possibility.” AFP.
During the rush hour on January 28, a sewage puddle swept out at an intersection in Yashio and swallowed a truck.
Officials said the sewage puddle was 40m (131 feet) in diameter. This is believed to be caused by a sewer rupture. Rescuers were able to pull out the truck’s loading platform from the sewage puddle, but could not reach the cabin with the driver.
Huge The report said the sediment may have flowed into the heavy corrosive pipeline, about 33 feet underground, forming a hollow under the road, collapsed under the weight of passing vehicles.
According to Japan’s Japanese TV station, nearly 30 hours after the collapse, the driver was still trapped in the vehicle because Japan’s Japanese TV station said sand and mud filled the seats.
Rescuers initially heard the driver reacting to their phone calls, but quickly lost contact.
However, due to continuous water flow and high levels of hydrogen sulfide, rescuers were unable to access the 5m-wide sewer pipe, where the truck cabin was the last time they saw it. The initial dimensions of the sewage pit are 10m wide and 5m deep.
However, it merged with another nearby sewage puddle, and has since tripled its size. Efforts to save the man must be suspended as further cave insertions in the sewage puddles make the area extremely unstable.
According to Kyodo News, authorities canceled searches inside sewage puddles on Sunday to focus on nearby sewer pipes.
According to Saitama County Governor Motohiro Ono, it will take at least three months to build a temporary bypass pipe to stop the flow of water.
He said Tuesday that the rescue team will have to wait for the bypass to complete before entering the truck cabin.
Five families living near Japanese sewage puddles were told that as the crater continued to expand, they were evacuated after a few days of swallowing trucks and drivers. More than a hundred residents within a radius of 50m have been moved out in the incident in the week.
