At least 19 people are missing on Saturday after torrential rains triggered a powerful landslide in the Japanese city of Atami, a 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. Shizuoka prefecture spokesman Takamichi Sugiyama said the prefecture confirmed at least 19 people are unaccounted for and that the number may grow. 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 …
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