A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake crushed part of a commercial complex housing a Jollibee restaurant in General Santos City on Monday, as the death toll across the southern Philippines reached at least 35.

A powerful earthquake shook part of the southern Philippines on Monday, causing at least 35 deaths.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An offshore magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the southern Philippines Monday, killing at least 19 people, injuring more than 200 others mostly in damaged…