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The death toll in a powerful earthquake in northern Philippines rose to 10 on Friday after another four bodies were found in rubble, authorities said, as aftershocks continued to rock the mountainous region.
Rescue workers in the town of Luba in the hardest-hit province of Abra are recovering the remains of men on a stretch of road buried by a landslide during Wednesday’s 7.0-magnitude quake, the provincial civil defense bureau told AFP.
Landslides and collapsing buildings killed six others in Abra and nearby provinces, authorities had previously said. More than 150 people were injured.
The powerful tremor shook the hilly region, damaging thousands of homes, toppling buildings and shaking high-rise buildings hundreds of kilometers away in the capital, Manila.
Military helicopters flew food aid and other emergency supplies to the region, where nearly 5,000 people remained in evacuation centers, the welfare agency said.
Teams of workers braved the aftershocks to clear debris that blocked key roads in the area.
Since the earthquake, more than a thousand aftershocks have been registered, the State Office for Seismology said on Friday.
The Philippines is regularly rocked by earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Basin.
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