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Four dead in Philippine quake
MANILA, Oct 17, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Three children were among four people
killed after a powerful earthquake hit the southern Philippines, authorities
said Thursday.
The 6.4-magnitude quake struck the Mindanao region, which makes up the
southern third of the Philippines, on Wednesday night.
On Thursday morning, local authorities confirmed four people had been
killed but said the death toll was not expected to rise significantly with no
casualties reported in Mindanao’s major cities.
Two of the children reported killed were in houses that collapsed, while a
mother and her five-year-old son died after being buried in a landslide,
local authorities told AFP.
The Philippines is part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense
seismic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across
the Pacific basin.
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