Death toll from Japan's mudslides, flooding rises to 10

TOKYO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Tuesday's mudslides and flooding caused by torrential downpours in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture has risen to 10, Kyodo News quoted local police as saying on Thursday.

In the hardest-hit city of Hofu, a man was found dead near a road after being buried under tress that were washed away in a mudslide, while the body of a woman was recovered from a bathroom at a nursing home for the elderly, Kyodo said.

Several other people remain unaccounted for, according to the Kyodo News.