A Filipino victim of an earthquake is loaded onto an ambulance in Ormoc city, Leyte island, Philippines, on Thursday. The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.5 and struck at a depth of 6.5km in Leyte province. "I think they will work overnight for the people trapped inside,'' Mr Petilla said of the rescuers, who were struggling to work amid a power outage. Mayor Richard Gomez of Ormoc city, about 30km from Kananga, told DZMM that a landslide hit a house and killed a young woman. A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990.

Source: Bangkok Post July 06, 2017 09:26 UTC