Rescuers have been struggling to find the 74-year-old driver since the truck plunged into a chasm that appeared near Tokyo two weeks ago.
“After experts analysed photos taken with a drone... they said there’s a cabin of a truck in the photos and they can’t rule out the possibility that what appears to be inside is a person,“ local fire department official Tomonori Nakazawa told AFP.
Governor Motohiro Ono of Saitama prefecture, where Yashio is located, said it will take about three months to build a temporary bypass pipe to stop water flow.
A 30-metre (98-foot) slope had allowed rescuers to send heavy equipment into the hole, with 1.2 million residents asked to temporarily cut back on showers and laundry to prevent leaking sewage from hindering the operation.
On Sunday, the search inside the sinkhole was called off to focus on the nearby sewer pipe where the truck’s cabin was spotted, Kyodo News and other outlets reported.
In 2016, a giant sinkhole around 30 metres wide and 15 metres deep appeared on a busy street in Fukuoka city, triggered by nearby subway construction.
No one was hurt and the street reopened a week after workers toiled around the clock.
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