Tsunami of mud sweeps the city of Atami away, Japan. Landslide
Natural disaster 3 July 2021. Tsunami with mud sweeps the city of Atami away, Japan
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Twenty people are missing in central Japan after a huge landslide hit Atami city following heavy rainfall.
Video on social media showed a torrent of black mud plummeting down from a mountain top and on through the city towards the sea. Several houses were destroyed.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has put together a task force to respond to the disaster and the wider emergency caused by heavy rainfall on the Pacific coastline.
Atami, a popular hot-spring resort in the prefecture of Shizuoka, has had more rainfall in the first three days of July than it usuall