Nearly 9,000 displaced struggling with water and fuel shortages amid an extreme heat alert
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Thousands of survivors of Japan's powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake have been forced to sleep in cars and crowded makeshift shelters as an intense heatwave grips the country, compounding misery for communities already devastated by the disaster.
Japan quake survivors sleep in cars as deaths reach 34 - Taipei Times
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