Toxic gas puts pause on sinkhole body recovery


A lorry cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, a fire department official said.

Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the lorry plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo two weeks ago.

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