Eight people were hauled from the wreckage of the Aeon mall and three workers are unaccounted for. (AP PHOTO)Eight people were hauled from the wreckage of the Aeon mall and three workers are unaccounted for. Eight people were pulled from the rubble of a partially collapsed shopping mall near the city of Kumamoto that was torn apart by an explosion about an hour after Tuesday's earthquake. "I thought a bomb had gone off," Takateru Sonoda, 41, who runs a combined hair salon and cafe near the mall, told Jiji Press. The quake's epicentre was about 20km south of Kumamoto City, central Kyushu's largest city with a population of about 700,000.