UPDATED: At least 21 killed, over 300 people injured, in successive Mindanao quakes, says NDRRMC

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A policeman watches as a resident retrieves his motorcycle among the rubble of a damaged building after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Kidapawan town, north Cotabato province, on the southern island of Mindanao on October 31, 2019. – A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on October 31, crushing a man under falling debris and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors. (Photo by Ferdinandh CABRERA / AFP)

 

(Eagle News) – The number of people killed in the combined 6.6 magnitude quake of Oct. 29 and the 6.5 magnitude quake of Oct. 31 has risen to at least 21, according to the latest report of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) issued on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019

The NDRRMC also said that there are at least 331 reported injured in the successive quakes (down from the previous NDRRMC report of 403), while two were reported missing.

The tremors had also affected more than 147,395 persons, displacing 29,479 families in 149 barangays in Mindanao (up from the previous report of 30,045 persons or 6,009 families in 72 barangays).

Residents carry the body of a woman, killed in a landslide from a 6.5-magnitude earthquake, in Makalila town, north Cotabato province, on November 1, 2019, a day after a powerful earthquake struck Mindanao island. (Photo by Ferdinandh CABRERA / AFP)

The fatalities were identified as Jessie Riel Parba, 15; Benita Saban, and Romulo Naraga from Davao del Sur; Nestor Narciso, 66, and Marcelo Tare, 75, from South Cotabato; Samuel Linao Andy, 44; Renee Corpuz Andy, 7,; Marichelle Morla, 23; Patricio Lumayon, 65; Pao Zailon Abdullah, 64; Isidro Gomez, 63; Cesar Bangot; Romel Galicia, 20; Precilla Verona, 70; Juve Gabriel Jauod, 7 and Tessie Alcayde, 70, from Cotabato province; and Lito Peles Mino, 59, from Sultan Kudarat.

Later, the NDRRMC added four more fatalities found in Cotabato.  They are Melacio Laxamana, 67; Melissa Jamero, 67; Nimfa Sabernas, 55; and Elma Rose Casuela, 64.

Search and rescue operations are still ongoing in the structures which had partially collapsed due to the successive quakes, as authorities scour the areas for persons possible trapped inside, particularly at the Eva’s Hotel in Kidapawan City, and the Ecoland 4000 condominium in Davao City.

More aftershocks continue to be felt in the region.