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Philippines rocked by third strong earthquake in a month, killing at least 20 people
- At least 30 people have died and a damaged hotel has buckled after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines
- The region is still recovering from a deadly quake on Tuesday, and another earlier this month
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A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors this month.
The 6.5-magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday. It was centred 10km deep near Kisante town, about 45km from Davao City.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who was in his hometown Davao City when the quake struck, is safe, his spokesman, Salvador Panelo, told ANC news channel. The powerful shaking caused serious damage to a condominium building in the city.
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A village hall collapsed in Batasan village in Makilala town of hard-hit Cotabato province and the village leader was pinned to death, Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said.
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Another man was pinned to death by a fallen tree and a woman died after being hit by heavy debris elsewhere in Makilala, government welfare officer Rosemarie Alcebar said. Two other villagers died due to quake-related injuries in Cotabato’s Arakan town but details of their deaths were not immediately available, Alcebar said.
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