Manila, Jun 8 (AP) At least 17 people were killed in a southern Philippine province Monday mostly due to a landslide set off by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, bringing the overall death toll wrought by the quake in the region
to 32, officials said.
Rene Punzalan, a disaster-mitigation official of Sarangani province told the DZBB radio network that 13 villagers were killed when a landslide set off by the earthquake hit houses in the mountainous town of Glan. Four other villagers died in Sarangani for still-unclear unclear reasons, he said.
The newly reported casualties raised the overall death toll in the strongest earthquake to hit the Philippine archipelago this year to at least 32. The quake caused small buildings to collapse and sparked small tsunamis in the southern Philippines and smaller waves that were detected in Indonesia and Palau and as far away as southern Japan. (AP) AMS
