Tokyo-Japan's police has seen a number of bodies in a car at a highway tunnel collapsed Sasago on Sunday morning.
"A number of charred bodies are in a vehicle," said a Police spokesman Yamanashi Prefecture, told AFP Sunday
The number of deaths is not yet known, he added.
The discovery of the bodies was reported when some of the local police, a professor and highway engineers held a survey in a tunnel collapse. Operation evekuasi is still paused to avoid parts of the tunnel which it is feared will be collapsed.
Sasago tunnel is estimated to have a length of 4.3 km Twin Tunnels. This is the main traffic lanes out of Tokyo.
A number of images from a camera that records TV network limited situations in tunnels indicates there is some 30 meters along the tunnel--another version called the 50-60 meters--that ambrol on the train to Tokyo that bypassed Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture.
The ceiling of the tunnel ambrol at around 8 am or 10: 00 a.m. Its ruins contain a passing vehicle. There's even a burning vehicle.
