Rescue workers search for people missing in fatal mudslide

Rescue workers search for people missing in fatal mudslide

HOFU, Japan - Rescue workers from the local police search for four people still missing inside a nursing home for the elderly in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in western Japan on July 22, after a mudslide triggered by torrential rain hit the facility a day before, burying the first floor under mud. Three people died in the disaster.

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