Rescue workers in Japan are trying to pull out a truck driver from a sinkhole that appeared on Tuesday and has since widened. The sinkhole appeared in Yashio city in Saitama prefecture, near the capital Tokyo, swallowing a truck.

Another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius had been evacuated, a spokesman said.

Efforts to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver after his vehicle plunged into a sinkhole that opened up near Tokyo on Jan 28 has been suspended again, according to Japanese media. The authorities said on Jan 30 that additional cave-ins at the sinkhole in Saitama prefecture have made the area dangerously unstable.