00:00Soldiers and emergency teams searched a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed homes on Wednesday for survivors.
00:09trapped after a powerful earthquake that left at least 18 dead, including a foreigner, in southwest Japan.
00:18According to the Associated Press, the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck the Kumamoto area the day before,
00:25On the main southern island of Kyushu, it also left at least 62 injured, six of them seriously, the report said.
00:33prefectural government.
00:35The balance has been steadily increasing, fueling fears that it will continue to grow.
00:41Some of the most serious damage was recorded at the Aion Mall shopping center in the city of Kashima, which
00:48It was packed with thousands of people when the earthquake struck.
00:52The company reported that about 3,000 customers were evacuated to a parking lot before an explosion occurred.
00:59gas in another part of the mall, where some people were still working.
01:06Kyushu Matsunaga, 74, who lives in the neighborhood of the shopping center, was at a supermarket when
01:13Just a few blocks away, he said he thought he was going to die.
01:18You turned on the television and saw the news saying that there had been an explosion at the Aion shopping mall.
01:24That's when I realized that the sound I had heard came from that explosion.
01:30It was simply devastating, Matsunaga added.
01:33In the Nuyamatsu district, a pair of gates of a 16th-century Buddhist temple collapsed.
01:40They had been repaired just five years ago.
01:44Yuki Kiyosumi, assistant priest of the temple, recalled the earthquake that occurred a decade ago and drew parallels with the current destruction.
02:31Yuki Kiyosumi, assistant priest of the temple, recalled the earthquake that occurred once again.
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