Rescue has reported an evaluation of “up to 60 dead”, this Wednesday, October 1, while the injured flock after a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.9 in the Philippines archipelago, which is still recovering from the deadly climate in recent days.
“We received an increasing number of victims reports,” said Rafaelito Alejandro, assistant manager of the Office of Civil Defense for journalists in Manila. “We have received information that indicates that up to 60 people perished in this earthquake,” the archipelago hit Tuesday night, he said.
The epicenter of the clash was detected at sea near the island of Cebu in the center of the archipelago on Tuesday at 9:59 pm (local time), according to the Institute of Geological Studies of the United States (USGS).
“I was in shock”
In the city of Bogo, near the epicenter, injured children shout and adults shout receiving attention in beds arranged under blue tents installed at the entrance of the Provincial Hospital. They had been evacuated from the building as a caution against the hundreds of aftershocks that shook the region during the night.
Not far away, hospital employees carry black deadly bags in civilians to trucks, AFP journalists observed. The first assistant Teddy Fontillalas, 56, who says he has not closed the attention of the night, explains that patients should be transferred to other hospitals, which Bogo has exceeded their abilities.
“We are already overcome, so we have to take them to the city,” he said, referring to the provincial capital of Cebu, located about 100 kilometers from the south.
The images filmed by inhabitants and shared on social networks have shown an ancient Catholic church on the island of Bantayan, near Cebu, decorated with a bomble bolt they oscillate violently before their bell collapses.
“I heard a great noise from the Church, then I saw stones falling from the structure. Fortunately, nobody was injured,” Martham Pacilan, a 25 -year -old resident of Bantayan’s coastal complex, also near the epicenter to AFP.
“I was in shock and panic, but my body was paralyzed, I stayed there waiting for the tremors to stop,” he said. More than 300 replicas have shaken the region, according to the Philippin Volcanology and Seismology Institute, decelerating the efforts of rescuers.
Electricity restored to CEBU
Electricity, a cutting time, was restored shortly after midnight from Cebu and in four other central islands, said the local electricity manager. “We felt the shock here, in our barracks, it was very strong,” Joey Leeguid, a firefighter in San Fernando, told AFP.
“I had the impression that we have all fallen. This is the first time I have lived,” said Agnes Merza, a nursing assistant in Bantayan. “All the neighbors began to run. My two teenage attendees hid under a table, because this was what they had taught among the explorers,” this 65 -year -old woman tells AFP.
The earthquakes are almost daily in the Philippines, located in the Pacific Fire belt, an arc of strong seismic activity that extends from Japan to Southeast Asia and through the Pacific Basin.
Another earthquake, of magnitude 6, occurred on Tuesday night in Indonesia, with an epicenter about 150 kilometers east of Surabaya, the second city of the country, at a depth of 13.9 kilometers, according to the USGS. The National Catastrophes Management Agency has reported damage to several houses.
The approval of the recent Bualoi storm and Typhoon Ragasa had caused about forty deaths in recent days in the Philippines archipelago, where many natural disasters occur.
Source: BFM TV
