Authorities in a landslide-hit Japanese holiday town were trying to locate 80 residents on Monday as rescue teams trawled through the muddy debris looking for survivors. Soldiers and emergency workers used hand-held poles and mechanical diggers in the desperate search, two days after a torrent of earth slammed down a mountainside and through part of […]
LANDSLIDE
19 missing in Japan landslide after heavy rain: official
A landslide engulfed houses and left 19 people missing in Japan’s central Shizuoka region on Saturday, local officials said, following days of heavy rain. Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating some buildings and burying others in Atami city, with people running away as it crashed over a hillside road. “The safety of 19 […]