Three men missing following an Alaska landslide are presumed dead and the search will be a "body recovery effort," an official said late Tuesday.
The landslides began at around 10 a.m. Tuesday, after heavy rains in coastal town of Sitka, city spokeswoman Sara Peterson told NBC station KTTU.
Peterson later told The Associated Press that the missing men are presumed dead and the search will be one of body recovery — a determination based, in part, "from the force of the slide and that kind of impact."
Earlier officials reported four people were missing but then said it was three.
