One man was killed and six people were injured by a flash flood Sunday in Gunma Prefecture that engulfed a group of 31 hikers affiliated with a Saitama elementary school soccer team, police said.
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| Rescuers search for survivors of the flash flood on the Yubiso River. |
The flash flood occurred on the Yubiso River at around 3:20 p.m. in the prefectural town of Minakami, at the foot of Mount Tanigawadake, police said. The river is a tributary of the Tone River.
The group of 31 -- 13 adults and 18 children -- were players and parents with the Shinmei Elementary School soccer team, from Higashi-Matsuyama, Saitama Prefecture. The group was hiking when the flood struck, rescuers said.
All the members had been found by 8 p.m.