By Agence France-Presse
MANILA (UPDATE) — Aftershocks rocked the northern Philippines early Wednesday, hours after a strong earthquake injured several people and caused substantial damage to a hospital and several old churches, authorities said.
The 6.4-magnitude quake struck the mountain town of Dolores in Abra province late Tuesday, followed by numerous aftershocks over the rest of the night, the state seismology office said.
“We hid under a table and my family only went out of the house after the shaking stopped,” Abra rescuer Ron Sequerra told AFP by telephone, adding his family had been woken by strong ground shaking.
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) spokesperson Raffy Alejandro said the quake injured 5 people, all of whom are residents of the Abra town of Lagayan.
The victims were aged between 10 and 62 years old, NDRRMC data showed.
