Rescuers face fresh risk as death toll from Japanese mudslide rises to seven

Police officers continue a search operation for missing people at the site of a mudslide in Atami, southwest of Tokyo Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Rescue workers struggled with sticky mud and risks of more mudslides Tuesday as they searched for people may have been trapped after a torrent of mud that ripped through a seaside hot springs resort. (Kyodo News via AP)

Rescue workers have recovered three more bodies after a torrent of mud and debris ripped through a Japanese resort town, taking the death toll to seven.

About 2,000 rescuers were deployed in the ravaged part of Atami, where workers and dogs searched carefully inside homes that were destroyed and filled with mud in Saturday’s disaster.