Philippine earthquake kills 107, injures hundreds

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A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine islands of Cebu and Bohol yesterday, causing more than one hundred deaths. The number of deaths is expected to rise as landslides and toppled buildings have left a large number of people missing, and more than two hundred people injured. One particular incident saw thousands of people stampede out of a football stadium, trampling three people to death, one of them an infant.

 

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