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ATAMI, JAPAN - JULY 04: Rescue workers search for missing people at the site of a landslide on July 04, 2021 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan. A rescue operation is underway after a landslide, caused by torrential rain, tore through the Japanese resort city of Atami on Saturday, killing two and leaving around twenty missing. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura and Blake Essig, CNN
Japanese rescue workers continued to search for survivors Monday, two days after a devastating “tsunami” of mud swept through a coastal city, killing at least three people and leaving 80
feared missing.
Torrential rains triggered the powerful mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) southwest of Tokyo. Footage posted on social media showed the deluge of black water crash down a mountain and into the city, destroying homes in its path as neighbors watched on in horror.
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