About 20 people missing and 2 dead after mudslide wipes out homes in Japan's Atami cityBy Selina Wang, Junko Ogura and Emiko Jozuka, CNN
Updated 1448 GMT (2248 HKT) July 3, 2021
Tokyo, Japan (CNN)At least two people are dead and some 20 people are missing after a mudslide swept across a seaside city around 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, sweeping away homes amid Japan's rainy season.
Footage posted on social media showed the powerful black mudslide shoot down a mountainside, engulfing homes and infrastructure as locals watched in horror.
The giant mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time, came after parts of the region was hit by torrential rain.
An Atami city official confirmed to CNN that two women had died in the landslide. ...
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