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A woman in her 70s died of heat stroke while sheltering in a car in Kumamoto Prefecture, raising the earthquake death toll to 36. The region now faces compounded crises of water shortages, fuel scarcity, and dangerously high temperatures.
Two women have died and one remains unresponsive following an explosion at a major shopping mall in Kumamoto, Japan, hours after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the southwestern prefecture on Tuesday.
A smokestack at Nippon Paper's Yatsushiro City facility in Kumamoto Prefecture collapsed after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern Japan, leaving two workers in critical condition and nine others missing.