The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to at least 69, a disaster official says, with scores of injured patients overwhelming hospitals on the island of Cebu.
Injured children cried and adults screamed while being treated on beds beneath blue tents outside the Cebu Provincial Hospital, having been wheeled outside as a precaution against waves of aftershocks overnight.
They are survivors of the shallow magnitude 6.9 quake that struck late on Tuesday off Cebu Island’s north near Bogo, a city of 90,000 people, according to the US Geological Survey.
Thirty people were killed in Bogo, Office of Civil Defence deputy administrator Rafaelito Alejandro says.
In other municipalities near the quake’s epicenter, 22 were killed in San Remigio, 10 in Medellin, five in Tabogon, and one each in Sogod and Tabuelan, he says.
The Bogo hospital puts the number of injured at 186 so far.
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