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Rescue workers have been navigating aftershocks — around 300 so far, according to the Japan meteorological agency — as well as temperatures nearing 100 degrees to reach any remaining survivors trapped in collapsed buildings. Seven people were killed when the building’s second floor collapsed, while five were pulled from the rubble alive. “We don’t know if that’s everyone, so we’re still going nonstop,” said Takeshi Ueda, a Kumamoto police official stationed at the mall on Thursday evening.