Philippines ends quake rescue efforts, priority now on helping the 20,000 displaced


  • World
  • Thursday, 02 Oct 2025

Residents watch as rescuers retrieve bodies of victims found under the rubble of a damaged pension house in the aftermath of a magnitude 6.9 quake in Bogo, Cebu, Philippines, October 1, 2025. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

BOGO, Philippines (Reuters) -Philippine authorities said on Thursday that search and rescue operations in quake-hit Cebu province have ended, as the current death toll of 72 was not expected to go much higher and missing people had been accounted for.

Attention has now turned to delivering aid to survivors of the 6.9-magnitude quake that has become the country's deadliest in more than a decade.

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