The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday (October 2, 2025), officials said, as the search for the missing wound down and rescuers turned their focus to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless.
The bodies of the three victims were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel overnight Wednesday (October 1, 2025) in the city of Bogo, near the epicentre of the 6.9-magnitude quake that struck on Tuesday (September 30, 2025).
"We have zero missing, so the assumption
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