Police and emergency officials in a city in Aichi Prefecture, Central Japan, are conducting a rescue operation for four residents of a house hit by a landslide.
Emergency officials in the city of Gamagori received a report shortly past 10 p.m. on Tuesday that five members of a family got caught in a landslide.
City officials say the caller is a woman in her 40s who lives in the house. They say she has been already rescued and taken to a hospital. They say she is conscious.
Other residents of the house are a man and a woman in their 70s, a woman in her 40s and a man in his 30s. Officials say they remain unable to contact the four.
City officials say mud from the landslide has flowed into the house.
Rescuers used heavy machinery to remove debris from the damaged house.
The house is located in a mountainous area about 1.6 kilometers from JR Mikawa-Shiotsu Station.
Weather officials say 46 millimeters of rain was recorded in the city from 7:25 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. on Tuesday. They added the city had rainfall measuring 138.5 millimeters during a period from 4 p.m. on Monday through 11 p.m. on Tuesday. That’s more than the average rainfall for the entire month of August.