TOKYO: Five Japanese road construction workers were buried in a landslide Thursday with one confirmed dead, authorities said.
The crew was repairing a cracked road on a mountainous slope in Yurihonjo city in northern Akita prefecture when the road collapsed, swallowing the workers along with their heavy machinery, a city official told AFP.
The incident happened around 3:20 pm local time or 0620 GMT.
Rescue crews later pulled one man's body from the snow-covered slope while four of his colleagues remain missing.
The city has been doing work on the closed road for several months, the official said. (AFP)
