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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