The death toll from a large mudslide that occurred in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture last weekend rose to nine from seven, a local government said Thursday.
Twenty-two people remain unaccounted for following the mudslide on Saturday in Atami, a hot spring resort town southwest of Tokyo on the Pacific coast, the city government said.
In the areas hit by the mudslide, police and Self-Defense Forces personnel continued the search on Thursday for those missing but had to temporarily halt the operation due to heavy rain in the afternoon.
Search and rescue operations continue on July 8, 2021, in the Shizuoka Prefecture hot spring resort city of Atami, central Japan, following the deadly mudslide triggered by heavy rain five days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
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