By EIICHI MURANO/ Staff Writer
July 7, 2021 at 13:13 JST
ATAMI, Shizuoka Prefecture--Rescue workers found the bodies of two women and one man while searching areas engulfed by the July 3 landslide, the Atami city government announced on July 6.
The latest victims who were confirmed dead raised the death toll in Atami from the disaster to seven.
A total of 27 people remain unaccounted for, according to the prefectural and city governments.
Among the three people found dead, a female was discovered inside a building buried in mud while another female and a male were found beneath mud on the mountain side of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.
On the evening of July 5, the prefectural and city governments released the names and genders of 64 people who were unaccounted for.
Later, as the whereabouts of many of those people were confirmed, the number of those missing dropped to 22 as of 7 p.m. on July 6.
The prefectural government additionally released the names of five people who are unaccounted for, based on information reported to the prefectural police and the fire department.
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