Self-Defense Forces continue searching for missing campers

Self-Defense Forces continue searching for missing campers

YAMAKITA, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces search Aug. 16 for campers that went missing after being swept away Aug. 14 by a rain-swollen river in Kanagawa Prefecture. Rescuers resumed searching from daybreak in and around Lake Tanzawa, about 500 meters downstream from a sandbar in the Kurokura River from where the campers had been swept away.

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