More than 40 people were reported injured after an explosion took place at a restaurant in northern Japan on Sunday, officials said. The blast took place around 8:30 p.m. in a neighborhood about 2 miles from the center of Sapporo, the capital of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido that's located about 700 miles north of Tokyo. Police officers were keeping people from approaching the damaged building out of fear of additional blasts, the Japan Times reported. “I heard a ‘bang,’ which sounded like thunder, and my condo was shaken,” a man who lives nearby told the news outlet. Another clerk at a nearby restaurant told Japanese broadcaster NHK there was a "tremendous sound."

Source: Fox News December 16, 2018 14:48 UTC