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Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan.
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Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan.
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Soldiers and emergency workers combed through rubble looking for survivors Wednesday after an earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan.
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At least 13 people have been killed in southwestern Japan after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for people trapped in collapsed buildings, including a shopping mall.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 4 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Rescuers search for survivors after powerful quake kills at least 18 in southwestern Japan.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — US and Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from NBC News — Top (Jul 29, 2026, 05:42 UTC); the most recent came from AP News (Jul 29, 2026, 13:14 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 3 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “southwestern japan”.
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