A strong earthquake in the north Philippines on Monday trapped some people in a collapsed building, damaged an airport terminal and knocked out power in at least one province, officials said.
Gov. Lilia Pineda of Pampanga province, north of Manila, told DZMM radio that about 20 people were rescued, some with injuries, from the small building which collapsed in Porac town when thejolted the capital and outlying provinces on the main northern island of Luzon. Among those trapped were customers and employees of a grocery on the building's ground floor, she said.
"There are still some people inside but they can't lift the debris that crashed down," Pineda said, appealing for cranes to help save the trapped people. The quake also damaged an airport terminal at Clark freeport, a former U.S. Air Force base, and an old Roman Catholic church in Pampanga, and caused cracks in highways and bridges, Pineda and other officials said.
Renato Solidum, who heads the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the late afternoon quake was centred near the northwestern town of Castillejos in Zambales province. Dozens of aftershocks were recorded.
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