Elderly woman with apparent heat stroke found dead while taking shelter in car

An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also suffering extreme temperatures.
The woman in her 70s with apparent heat stroke was found in a car, Kumamoto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake to 36.
The magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday.
This latest death was what officials and experts had worried about amid high temperatures.