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Eight days following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, over 8,000 evacuees remain sheltered as extreme temperatures and persistent water outages compound the humanitarian crisis.
A smokestack at a Nippon Paper factory in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture collapsed following a powerful earthquake, leaving two people in cardiac arrest and nine others unaccounted for.
A significant explosion at Aeon Mall Kumamoto has left numerous people injured and trapped within the partially collapsed shopping centre following a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck southwestern Japan on Tuesday.