A 74-year-old driver for 72 hours remains in the cabin of a truck, which is falling into a giant failure formed in the city of Yashio near Tokyo. The air pictures show how the fire engine lowered the stairs into a huge hole, and the firefighters tried to save the driver who stopped in touch. This is reported by NHK.

More than 72 hours after the collapse of the road to the Prefecture of Saitama, Japan, rescuers on Friday began to build a ramp to try to save a 74-year-old truck driver. Nothing is known about the driver since he stopped in touch.

Officials said that since on January 28 the road fell, the diameter of the hole increased to 40 meters - almost to the length of the Olympic basin.

According to the city authorities Yashio, the failure could form due to corrosion of the sewer pipe.

“The situation is very dangerous,” the local firefighter Tetsuji Sato told reporters on Thursday. According to him, groundwater seeps into failure, and the pit "

The authorities were hoping to complete the construction of a 30-meter ramp by Friday, but the local official said that this could take several days. Rescue work was complicated by the continuing erosion of the inner wall of the giant pit about 10 meters deep, which is why rescuers could not be inside for a long time. Initially, the diameter of the crater was about 5 meters, but during rescue work, another huge funnel formed nearby. As the funnel expanded, pieces of road asphalt fell into it from time to time, preventing rescuers from reaching the crack. It also makes it dangerous to find a number of heavy equipment. 1.2 million inhabitants of the region were asked to reduce the number of bathing and washing so that the sewage leaks did not complicate rescue operations.

" Rescuers raised the truck, but, unfortunately, only the body was pulled out, and the front of the truck still remains in the funnel.

Most of the main public infrastructure of Japan was built during the rapid economic growth of the 1960s and 1970s. Sewer pipe in Yashio for about 40 years.

Recall that the road in Japan failed January 28. In the evening of the same day, the driver stopped in touch with the rescuers.