FORCED OUTDOORS Monday’s temblor and its aftershocks have forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes and take shelter in an open area outside a municipal hall in hard-hit Sarangani province on Wednesday. They’ve brought everything they can carry, including pillows, blankets, jugs of water, even the trusty broom. —AP
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines — The business community here on Wednesday called for the swift restoration of electricity and rehabilitation of the highways for the city to rebound from Monday’s massive earthquake that cut power lines, flattened buildings, and ruptured roads.
“There is a need to restore normalcy through the restoration of electricity and roads destroyed by the quake for businesses to bounce back,” Miguel Rene Dominguez, president of the General Santos City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc., told the Inquirer.
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The magnitude 7.8 tremor just off the coastal town of Maasim in Sarangani province on Monday also triggered landslides and set off tsunami warnings across a swathe of the southern island.FEATURED STORIES
