At least 19 dead in Philippines after magnitude 7.8 quake hits, over 200 injured
An offshore magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 19 people, injuring over 200 others and sending a one-metre (three-foot) tsunami into nearby coasts. The quake struck early in the morning off the island of Mindanao – an island the size of South Korea – as Philippine schools were reopening after a long break, with the tremors felt strongly in a dozen provinces and 420km (261 miles) away in the city of Manado on the Indonesian isl
Schools and buildings collapsed as residents fled, with rescue teams continuing to search for missing students
One survivor told This Week in Asia the shaking was so violent “you couldn’t stand”.
The casualty count remained fluid as rescue teams fanned out across Mindanao, with disaster-response officials reporting deaths from landslides, collapsed buildings, falling debris and a damaged mosque across several parts of the southern island.
The deaths were reported in Sarangani, South Cotabato and Davao Occidental provinces, as well as in nearby General Santos, a port city and commercial hub, and on Balut Island off Mindanao’s southern coast.
One of the clearest death tolls came from Sarangani, where Rene Punzalan, a disaster-mitigation official, told the DZBB radio network that 13 villagers were killed when a landslide hit houses in the mountainous town of Glan.
Four other villagers died in Sarangani for still-unclear reasons, bringing the province’s reported death toll to 17, Punzalan said.
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