How did Japan fix the death toll of 30m in two days?

Construction workers in Fukuoka City, Japan only take 48 hours to fill the 30m-long death zone that swallowed 5 lanes in the middle of the center.

The road in downtown Fukuoka returned to smoothness just a few days after a fatal hole of 30m in diameter appeared right next to the crowded subway station and threatened to collapse the neighboring buildings, Guardian yesterday. reported.

Road segment before and after repair.(Photo: Guardian).

The team of repair workers worked through the night, filling the crater with 6,200m ^{3 of} sand and cement in just two days, allowing vehicles and pedestrians to travel from yesterday morning.

Urgent repairs to reopen crowded roads include repairing sewers, replacing traffic light posts and electric poles are swallowed by the crater after the death hole appeared on the morning of November 8.

Soichiro Takashima, Fukuoka's mayor, said the new road surface was 30 times stronger than the old one. The city government will send a team of experts to find out the cause of death. Local media believe that the crater is 30m long, 27m wide and 15m deep as a result of the construction process to expand an underground subway line.

The roadwork group received many compliments from social network users after the video recorded a widely shared repair scene.