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Japan landslides kill 32 in Hiroshima prefecture
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28862949<snip>
At least 32 people have been killed in landslides that struck Japan's Hiroshima prefecture, officials say.
The landslides happened in a residential area near a mountain in the Hiroshima city outskirts.
They were triggered after the equivalent of a month's rain fell in the 24 hours up to Wednesday morning, Japan's weather agency said.
Another nine people are still missing, said authorities.
Another local government official said some people were swept away and it was "hard to know exactly how many are unaccounted for", AP reported.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says that several of those killed were children.