The dead on the island of Kyushu included two women in the mall and three more elsewhere, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency told AFP earlier. “The explosion occurred after the customers and staff had evacuated,” a spokesman for the mall’s operator Aeon told AFP. Eight people were rescued from the mall, five of whom had injuries, a local official told AFP. Chiharu Hara, a 35-year-old recruitment agent who was in Kumamoto, told AFP that she was “terrified” when the quake struck. Japan is haunted by the memory of a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that killed or left missing around 18,500 people and wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant.