TOKYO - Thousands of rescuers combed through the wreckage of homes engulfed by landslides in western Japan on Thursday in the slim hope of finding survivors, a day after a wall of mud claimed at least 39 lives.
In 1999, more than 30 people died in a series of landslides that hit Hiroshima, including the area affected on Wednesday. - AFP
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