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Japan ends rescue at quake-hit mall as heat compounds disaster

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The Kumamoto prefectural government said on Saturday it had ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping centre, where seven workers died in an explosion shortly after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The New York Times reported that rescuers are working in 100-degree Fahrenheit heat and that shelters with limited air conditioning put displaced people at risk of heatstroke.

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