Japan’s Kumamoto prefectural government said on Saturday it has ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping centre where seven workers died in an explosion shortly after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southwestern Japan prefecture four days earlier.
Officials said there should be no more people unaccounted for after local police and firefighters, joined by the Self-Defence Forces and others, searched the shopping centre in Kashima. Its second floor collapsed in a possible gas explosion...
Japan ends rescue at quake-hit shopping centre after explosion kills 7
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August 1, 2026
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Source: South China Morning Post | https://www.scmp.com/rss/91/feed - Read Original
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