Two people have died and 20 still missing on Sunday after torrential rains triggered a powerful landslide in Atami, a Japanese seaside resort town in Shizuoka Prefecture, south-west of Tokyo, according to local reports. Japan’s military has dispatched emergency personnel to the city in search and rescue efforts, joining local firefighters and police. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has called together an emergency task force for the disaster. The landslide, which reportedly struck around 10:30 a.m., appeared to have done so multiple times, about as fast as a car. Footage from public broadcaster NHK showed a powerful, black mudslide slide down a mountainside, knocking down and crushing houses and sweeping away cars in its way. It also showed a part of a bridge had collapsed. The area that was hit by the landslide, Izusan, includes hot springs, residential areas, shopping streets and a famous shrine. Sugiyama said that dozens of homes may have been buried. …
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