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On the 12th of February 2025, Channel News Asia headline reads: “Truck cabin found in Japan sinkhole search for driver”.

From the article:

> 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.

Later, the report continues:

> "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.

> But rescuers could not enter the sewer pipe where the truck cabin was spotted due to water flow and high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas, he said.

Hi, my name is Terence, and I’m your host for the Daily Monsoon, a podcast where I connect current events to matters of faith. Today, we look at the tail end of a disaster that started two weeks ago.