JAPAN QUAKE VICTIM DIES OF HEATSTROKE WHILE SHELTERING IN CAR AMID ‘EXTREME HEAT’ WARNING

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… The woman in her seventies with heatstroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake to 36.

News - South China Morning Post reports that 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…

The report adds: The woman in her seventies with heatstroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake to 36.

The magnitude 7.1 hit Kumamoto prefecture on...

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