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Sinkhole at intersection near Tokyo

YASHIO, Japan, Jan. 30 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 30, 2025, shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. A sinkhole opened up on Jan. 28, swallowing a truck and a man believed to be its driver. Another sinkhole appeared during work to rescue him and the two holes later joined to become one large hole. (Kyodo)

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Driver 'dozing off' before accident killing 6 kids

Driver 'dozing off' before accident killing 6 kids

KANUMA, Japan - Masato Shibata, a truck driver arrested over a fatal accident in which six children died, walks out of a police station in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 19, 2011, before being sent to a prosecutors office. Shibata told the police that he fell asleep behind the steering wheel before his truck ran into elementary school students on their way to school the previous day. (Kyodo)

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