Rescuers on Monday raced to reach several people believed trapped inside a supermarket that crumbled as a magnitude-6.9 quake violently shook the southern Philippines, killing at least three people, officials said. At least two people were killed when the store collapsed at the Southern Trade shopping center in the town of Padada, an impoverished community in the province of Davao del Sur, which bore the brunt of the temblor. “Rescuers were able to pull out two female bodies from the rubble” before dawn, said Francisco Guerrero, the vice mayor of Padada. On Sunday, a 6-year-old girl was killed after a wall collapsed on her at a separate location. Mr. Guerrero said that rescuers had deployed sensitive listening devices to try and detect any more signs of life in the rubble at the store.

Source: International New York Times December 16, 2019 09:11 UTC