Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides in southern Japan, leaving at least six people dead and 10 others missing, including elderly residents at a nursing home, officials said Wednesday. A mudslide hit a nursing home in Hofu City in Yamaguchi Prefecture (state) on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring another, as the ground floor of the two-storey building was inundated. Rescue workers and dogs searched Wednesday for four residents who were still missing, prefectural police official Fumio Kurokawa said. Most of the 90 residents evacuated to the roof and were safely lifted out by helicopter. The Meteorological Agency said the peak of the rain has passed in southern Japan, where more than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rainfall was reported in 24 hours through Tuesday evening, but it warned of a possibility of more landslides.
