Search team looking for missing man in Miyazaki Pref.
16:30 JST, September 19, 2022
MIYAZAKI — A man in his 40s has gone missing due possibly to having been caught in a landslide on Monday in Mimata, Miyazaki Prefecture.
The town’s disaster management office received a report about his absence at around 7:20 a.m.
According to the town, a slope collapsed and sediment flowed into the building the man was in. The town has been unable to contact the man, and personnel from the Self-Defense Forces, prefectural police and fire department are searching for him.
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