Philippines Earthquake: Death Toll Tops 100

 

CEBU, Philippines -- The death toll from a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol has topped 100 with only three people pulled alive from rubble.

Regional military commander Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda says 100 died on Bohol, the epicenter of Tuesday's quake. Nine people were killed in nearby Cebu province and another island.
There seems little hope of finding any large number of survivors from beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings and churches.
The small coastal town of Loon has reported 20 fatalities, the highest in Bohol, including those buried in a hospital and a church.

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The entire province was without electricity after the quake cut power supplies.

Authorities set up tents for those displaced by the quake, while others who lost their homes moved in with their relatives, Bohol Gov. Edgardo Chatto said.
Extensive damage also hit densely populated Cebu city, across a narrow strait from Bohol, causing deaths when a building in the port and the roof of a market area collapsed.

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