Authorities in Japan have suspended rescue work today inside a long Japanese road tunnel after concrete ceiling slabs fell onto moving vehicles and killed nine people.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

In Japan, rescuers have recovered five bodies from a motorway tunnel which collapsed this morning.

At least seven people were missing today after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.