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1st Disaster-Related Death Recognized over Kumamoto Quake
- (Adnkronos) - Kumamoto, Nov.
- 9 (Jiji Press)--The city government of Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Monday certified a woman who died following a major earthquake that struck the southwestern Japan prefecture in July as a disaster-related death, the first such recognition linked to the tremblor.
- The recognition brought the death toll of the 7.1-maginitude quake on July 28 to 39, including additional suspected disaster-related deaths.
- The woman, who was a Yatsushiro resident in her 90s, suffered from a subdural hematoma due to a fall during the earthquake, according to the city government…
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