Rescuers search for survivors after deadly earthquake in Cebu, Philippines
發佈日期: 2025-10-01 21:31
TVB News
Rescuers are searching for survivors in collapsed houses and other damaged buildings in the central Philippines, a day after an earthquake killed at least 69 people.
The death toll was expected to rise from the magnitude-6.9 earthquake that hit at about 10 p.m. on Tuesday, trapping residents in the hard-hit city of Bogo and outlying rural towns in Cebu province.
Sporadic rain and damaged bridges and roads have hampered rescue efforts.
A leisurely evening in Cebu City, Philippines. The ground starts to shake, panic sets in as people rush out of their homes. Street lights flicker on and off, but these people were spared the worst.
Nearby, a Miss Asia Pacific International pageant. The building shakes and contestants and guests scramble.
The tremor reduced this church to rubble.
The morning after, and dozens of people gather at the Cebu Provincial Hospital Bogo City seeking treatment. Bodies of victims lay on the ground.
The earthquake was centred about 17 kilometres northeast of Bogo, a coastal city of about 90,000 people in Cebu province.
Officials say many people were killed in Bogo as well as in the town of San Remigio, south of Bogo, mostly after being hit by collapsing walls and houses.
Rescuers scrambled to find survivors on Wednesday. Army troops, police and civilian volunteers supported by backhoes and sniffer dogs were deployed to carry out house-to-house searches for survivors.
The death toll in Bogo was expected to rise.
Deaths also were reported from the outlying towns of Medellin and San Remigio, where three coast guard personnel, a firefighter and a child were killed separately by collapsing walls and falling debris while trying to flee to safety from a basketball game.
The earthquake was one of the most powerful to batter the central region in more than a decade.
