Rescuers search for survivors after powerful Japan quake kills 13

KUMAMOTO, Japan — A major earthquake that severely damaged a shopping mall and a factory in Japan killed at least 13 people, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers desperately tried to reach survivors feared trapped in the wreckage. The 7.1-magnitude quake struck the southwestern region of Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island on Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread damage, sparking fires and leaving tens of thousands of homes without power. “Thirteen people have died,” Takaichi said a day after the tremor that registered at the highest level on Japan’s shindo scale of seismic shaking. READ: Japan PM says injuries, buildings collapsed in major […]...

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