TOKYO, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Four senior citizens have yet to be accounted for after rescue services were called to put out a fire on Tuesday morning in a house in Tono, Iwate Prefecture in northeast Japan.
The four elderly people are believed to have been in the house when the blaze started in the early hours of Tuesday morning at around 2:30 a.m. local time, police officials said.
The house belongs to an 81-year-old who works as a farmer in the region, with officials saying the blaze devoured the house as well as an adjacent building.
Two people living in the adjacent building escaped the blaze, but police said that the four elderly people remain missing.
