A woman with apparent heat stroke found dead while taking shelter in a car in quake-hit Japan
Officials said more than 9,000 people remain in shelters as heat and fuel shortages raise the risk of illness after the quake.
- Kumamoto officials raised the earthquake death toll to 36 on Sunday after a woman in her 70s died of heat stroke in a car. This fatality reflects growing concerns over extreme temperatures in the disaster region.
- The magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. Experts and officials had warned that high temperatures could exacerbate health risks for survivors following the initial disaster.
- Authorities ended a massive search-and-rescue operation Saturday at the Aeon Mall in Kashima, where five people were extracted and seven bodies found. Separately, a collapsed chimney at Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro killed nine.
- Kumamoto Governor Takashi Kimura urged evacuees in vehicles to keep enough fuel to run air conditioning, while Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said "the government is determined to do everything we can." Both leaders acknowledged the dire shelter conditions.
- More than 9,000 people remain in crowded shelters without air conditioning, while nearly 47,000 homes lack fresh water. Officials are distributing leaflets to car-bound evacuees as they face extreme heat levels of 36.6 degrees Celsius.
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Woman found dead from heatstroke while taking shelter in a car in quake-hit Japan
TOKYO (AP) — An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said Sunday as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also suffering extreme temperatures.The woman in her 70s with apparent heat stroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll fr…
Japan quake victim dies of heatstroke while sheltering in car
An elderly woman who developed heatstroke while taking shelter in a car was the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said on Sunday as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also suffering extreme temperatures. The woman in her seventies with heatstroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake …
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