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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Dozens missing in Visayas quake

Dozens of people were still missing Tuesday following a strong earthquake that triggered landslides and damaged buildings and roads on a central Philippine island.

Monday's magnitude-6.9 quake also collapsed bridges on Negros Island, forcing soldiers and firefighters to hike mountains to reach remote villages.


The quake was caused by movement in an undersea fault 44 miles north of Dumaguete, the capital of Negros Oriental province, and about 400 miles southeast of the nation's capital, Manila.

With at least 82 people still missing, many of them in landslides that buried homes, the casualties could top a 2004 quake on Mindoro Island, south of Manila.

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