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- The death toll from Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture reached 34, including cases authorities are assessing for quake links.
- At least seven people died after an explosion partially collapsed Aeon Mall in Kashima; the blast occurred about 80 minutes after the quake.
- Eight people died at a Nippon Paper Industries mill in Yatsushiro, the Kumamoto Prefectural Government reported.
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Rescue operations continued Wednesday at the Aeon shopping mall, where at least three people had died, while four people remained missing at the Yatsushiro plant, the prefectural government said.
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Authorities reported that the Kumamoto earthquake death toll had risen to 34, including deaths whose connection to the quake remained under review.
With information from: The Japan Times.