Devastating Earthquake in the Philippines: Hundreds Dead and Injured

SadaNews - Authorities in the Philippines announced on Wednesday morning that the powerful earthquake that struck the archipelago on Tuesday evening, with a magnitude of 6.9, has resulted in "up to 60 deaths along with hundreds of injuries" so far, and the death toll is expected to rise.

Rafaeleito Alejandro, Deputy Head of the Civil Defense Office, told reporters in Manila, "We are receiving an increasing number of reports of casualties, so the situation is very unstable. We have received reports of up to 60 people killed in this earthquake."

Search operations for survivors accelerated in the Philippines following the violent earthquake that hit the country's center with a magnitude of 6.9, marking a new disaster at a time when the archipelago has not yet recovered from the aftermath of the devastating storms that struck it days earlier.