'Rocking and confusion', recalls tourist caught in earthquake

Chantel Mohar, an American tourist, was in Kumamoto with her family when the earthquake struck yesterday. They were travelling on a full tour bus when all their phones went off with earthquake alerts. "There was just a lot of rocking and confusion," she told the BBC's Newsday programme. What was meant to be a 2.5-hour ride turned into nine hours, as the bus was made to detour onto an evacuation route. She says they saw devastation caused by the tremors, including smashed cars and colla