Dozens killed after powerful earthquake strikes Philippines

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least 69 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake hit a central Philippine province&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The magnitude-6&period;9 earthquake struck at about 10pm local time on Tuesday &lpar;3pm BST&rpar;&comma; leaving an unspecified number of residents trapped in collapsed houses&comma; nightclubs and other businesses in the hard-hit city of Bogo and outlying rural towns in Cebu province&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rescuers scrambled to find survivors on Wednesday&period; Army troops&comma; police and civilian volunteers backed by digging equipment and sniffer dogs were deployed to carry out house-to-house searches for survivors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The epicentre of the earthquake&comma; which was set off by movement in an undersea fault line at a dangerously shallow depth of three miles&comma; was about 12 miles north-east of Bogo&comma; a coastal city of about 90&comma;000 people in Cebu province where about half of the deaths were reported&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187124" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187124" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;IMG&lowbar;9968&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187124" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187124" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Bogo City in Cebu province was badly hit by the quake<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The death toll in Bogo was expected to rise&comma; according to officials&comma; who said intermittent rain and damaged bridges and roads were hampering the race to save lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Philippine government is considering whether to seek help from foreign governments based on an ongoing rapid damage assessment&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Workers were trying to transport a backhoe to hasten search and rescue efforts in a cluster of shanties in a mountain village hit by a landslide and boulders&comma; Bogo city disaster-mitigation officer Rex Ygot said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s hard to move in the area because there are hazards&comma;” said Glenn Ursal&comma; another disaster-mitigation officer&comma; who added that some survivors were brought to a hospital from the mountain village&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187126" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187126" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;IMG&lowbar;9969&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187126" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187126" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">People stayed away from buildings following the quake<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Deaths also were reported from the outlying towns of Medellin and San Remigio&comma; where three coast guard personnel&comma; a firefighter and a child were killed separately by collapsing walls and falling debris while trying to flee to safety from a basketball game in a sports complex that was disrupted by the quake&comma; town officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The earthquake was one of the most powerful to batter the central region in more than a decade and it struck while many people slept or were at home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology briefly issued a tsunami warning and advised people to stay away from the coastlines of Cebu and the nearby provinces of Leyte and Biliran due to possible waves of up to three feet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No such waves were reported and the tsunami warning was lifted more than three hours later&comma; but thousands of traumatised residents refused to return home and chose to stay in open grassy fields and parks overnight despite intermittent rains&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e01dd02f5e0">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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