Powerful quake hits south Japan, deaths feared in shopping mall blast
1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.
Fire services earlier said multiple people were trapped inside, while police said “quite a few” were presumed dead in the incident, broadcaster TBS reported.‘LIKE VOLCANIC ASH WAS FALLING’ Around 20 to 30 workers at the prefecture’s largest shopping mall were unaccounted for after it was rocked by an explosion in the aftermath of the quake, NHK said.
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