UPDATE: Eight killed, 60 injured in quake, aftershocks in Philippines
MANILA - At least eight people were killed and 60 injured when two earthquakes, just hours apart, struck the Philippines’ northernmost province early on Saturday .
“Some people died because they were sleeping soundly since it was still early... We saw houses shaking. Some of the walls of the houses collapsed and fell on the victims,” he said.The upper half of a church’s steeple housing the belfry had collapsed onto a lawn. The hardest hit was Itbayat, an island town that is nearer to Taiwan’s southernmost tip than Luzon with a population of just 2,800, and could only be reached by boat.“Most of the houses destroyed were old and made of limestone,” Mr Dan Esdicul, NDRRMC’s head in Batanes, told radio station DZMM.
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