Houses are damaged by mudslide following heavy rain at Izusan district in Atami, west of Tokyo, Saturday, July 3, 2021. A powerful mudslide carrying a deluge of black water and debris crashed into rows of houses in a town west of Tokyo following heavy rains on Saturday, leaving multiple people missing, officials said.
(Naoya Osato/Kyodo News via AP)- A wave of black mud and water washed away homes and cars.
- The incident happend in the seaside town of Atami.
- The equivalent of one month's rain fell on the region in three days.
At least 19 people were missing after a wave of black mud, water and debris slammed into houses southwest of Tokyo Saturday amid days of heavy rainfall.
Officials said as many as 100 people could be unaccounted for, The Associated Press reported. Further details weren't immediately available.
Two people were reported dead, but their deaths had not yet been confirmed.
"Because of the heavy rain, the ground loosened and the mudslide occurred … it picked up speed and swept away houses together with people," Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu told reporters, according to the Japan Times.
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The incident occurred in the town of Atami, about 65 miles southwest of Tokyo. As many as 80 homes were completely buried.
Witnesses recounted the scene.
"I heard a horrible sound and saw a mudslide flowing downwards as rescue workers were urging people to evacuate. So I ran to higher ground," a leader of a temple near the disaster told NHK.
"When I returned, houses and cars that were in front of the temple were gone."
Video posted to social media showed the moment the wave came crashing down a hillside.
Some 35,000 people were ordered to evacuate, according to the AP. Evacuation orders were also issued in the cities of Yokohama, Chiba and Shizuoka, the Japan Times reported.
Atami is a popular hot-spring resort town in the prefecture of Shizuoka. The area has been hammered by heavy rainfall in recent days, with more than 19 inches of rain in the past 24 hours alone. That's more rain than the region normally sees in the entire month.
The rain appears to have triggered several fast-moving landslides, including the one that crushed houses and carried away cars.
Japan self-defense forces, firefighters police and other emergency crews are all taking part in rescue operations.
The bodies of two people who were washed away were found in by the coast guard in waters off the coastal city, Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu told reporters.
They had not yet been declared officially dead.
“I offer my deepest condolences to everyone who has suffered,” Kawakatsu said.
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