Rescuers search for the missing after Japan earthquake as death toll rises to 13
by: MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Posted: Jul 29, 2026 / 07:14 AM CDT Updated: Jul 29, 2026 / 07:19 AM CDT KUMAMOTO, Japan (AP) — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu also left at least 62 people injured, six of them seriously, the prefectural government said. The tally has been steadily growing, fanning fears it may continue to rise. Some of the most serious damage was at the Aeon Mall shopping center in Kashima city, which was bustling with thousands of people when the quake happened.
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Three people remained missing, while four deaths were confirmed at the mall site, according to Aeon President Akio Yoshida. “We take it seriously that an explosion happened and precious lives were lost,” Yoshida told a news conference in Kumamoto, where he bowed deeply along with two other executives. 1 dead — at least Although operations at Aso Kumamoto Airport resumed Wednesday, some airlines canceled flights as a precautionary measure.
