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A video shows a baby rescued from a collapsed home after a major earthquake hit Japan near the city of Kumamoto on April 14.
At least 860 people have been injured, 53 of them seriously, said government chief spokesman Yoshihide Suga, while the Kumamoto prefecture counted 784 injured.
Officials said nine people died, eight of them were from Mashiki, a small town near the epicenter of the 6.5-magnitude quake. The dead include five women and four men, said the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. One of the victims who died was a man in his 20s, and the others ranged from their 50s to a woman in her 90s.
The video shows an 8-month-old baby girl carried out of the rubble by rescue workers. According to NBC News, officials said the child was rescued at 3:45 a.m., local time, six hours after the family called emergency services.
