Five people are thought to be trapped and a number of vehicles are ablaze inside a motorway tunnel which has collapsed in Japan, reports have said.
The Sasago tunnel on the Chuo Expressway, about 50 miles west from Tokyo, caved in at around 8am local time and is said to have affected to the Tokyo-bound lanes.
According to media reports, a 100-metre section of the tunnel has been affected - although there has been no immediate confirmation from authorities.
Kyodo News reported that firefighters had said there were "at least five" people trapped in the tunnel, saying a woman who escaped had been in a vehicle with five others, none of whom she had seen since she fled.
A local traffic police unit official told AFP news agency: "We have limited information on the accident at the moment but smoke is said to be coming out from the tunnel as an unspecified number of vehicles were burning."
A journalist working for the public broadcaster NHK was driving through the tunnel when it started to disintegrate.
"I managed to drive through the tunnel but vehicles nearby appeared to have been trapped," he reported.
"Black smoke was coming and there seemed to be a fire inside the tunnel."
NHK footage from inside the tunnel showed a white ambulance and several firefighters wearing protective gear, working in a section shrouded in smoke.
A number of cars with their lights flashing were also seen.
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