SENBOKU, Japan, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The bodies of four people engulfed by a landslide in northern Japan were found Saturday, officials said.
One person was still missing, Kyodo News Service reported. The landslide, which buried eight houses in Senboku, also injured three women, one of them critically.
Akita Prefecture at the northern end of Japan's main island, Honshu, has been hit by torrential rains. On Friday, rain fell at the rate of around 3 inches an hour during the worst of the storm, with Senboku getting as much rain during the day as it normally receives in all of August.
The dead were identified as Natsu Hagawa, 88, her son, Kazuo, 61, Kiichiro Hanegawa, 93, and Minoru Hanegawa, 58. The body of Minoru Hanegawa's wife, Ryuko, 54, had not been found.
The heavy rain has been blamed for at least two other deaths in Japan. A 91-year-old woman was buried by a landslide in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, and a man, 62, died in a river in Nishiwaga.
