Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 141

There have been some people rescused from their homes, but hopes are fading for finding many more people alive.

Kurashiki (Japan) (AFP) - Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 141 lives in one of Japan's worst weather-related disasters for decades.

The record downpours that began last week have stopped and receding flood waters have laid bare the destruction that has cut a swathe through the west of the country.