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Japan ends rescue at quake-hit shopping centre after explosion kills 7
Japan's Kumamoto prefectural government ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping centre in Kashima after seven workers died in an explosion linked to a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. The second floor collapsed in a possible gas explosion, and no one is believed unaccounted for following searches by local authorities and the Self-Defence Forces.
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