At least 1 dead, 43 injured after powerful Mindanao quake – NDRRMC

By: Frances Mangosing - Inquirer.net - 5 years ago

An office worker is attended by colleagues after she fainted at the height of the earthquake that hit Davao City, in southern island of Mindanao on October 29, 2019. - A 6.6-magnitude quake struck the southern Philippines on October 29, authorities said, causing injuries and damaging buildings in a region still reeling from a previous deadly tremor. Terrified locals fled into the streets after the shallow quake, which the US Geological Survey said hit the island of Mindanao as schools and offices opened for the day. (Photo by Manman Dejeto / AFP)

MANILA, Philippines — At least one person was reported dead while 43 others were injured after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hjolted central Mindanao on Tuesday morning.

Nestor Narciso, 66, a resident of Koronadal City, succumbed to massive as  injuries,  initial reports from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.

Thirty people were reported injured in Kidapawan City and 13 others in Mlang, Cotabato.

Twenty-three local government units have also suspended classes , the NDRRMC added,

The earthquake struck 26 kilometers northeast of Tulunan, Cotabato at 9:04 a.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.  /gsg

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