MASHIKI // Army troops and rescue teams rushed to save scores of people trapped after a pair of strong earthquakes in Japan killed at least 32 people, injured about 1,500 and left hundreds of thousands without electricity or water. Rainfall was forecast to start pounding the area on Saturday, threatening to further complicate the relief operation and set off more mudslides in isolated rural towns, where people were waiting to be rescued from collapsed homes. Kumamoto prefectural official Riho Tajima said the death toll stood at 22 from the magnitude-7.3 quake that shook the Kumamoto region on the south-western island of Kyushu early on Saturday. On Thursday night, Kyushu was hit by a...
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