No less than 69 people have been killed with many others injured after a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines late on Tuesday.
The province of Cebu, which suffered the brunt of the damage, declared a state of calamity on Wednesday morning, after thousands spent the night on the streets amid repeated aftershocks.
Speaking with the BBC, one Cebu resident said the voices of crying children could be heard around him, adding that they were “traumatised”.
The earthquake comes barely more than a week after the country was hit by back-to-back typhoons which killed more than a dozen people.
Editing by Tijjani Ibrahim
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