Manila — Residents fled their houses in panic overnight on Friday as aftershocks hit the central Philippines a day after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake killed two people and injured at least 72 others, authorities said. Rescuers pulled 13 trapped people from a collapsed commercial building late on Thursday in the town of Kananga on Leyte island, near the epicentre of the quake, local officials said. Three provinces in the region remain without power while all schools are closed in Leyte as authorities assess the damage. "Some residents ran out of their homes when they felt aftershocks. Some panicked but many stayed calm because we just had an earthquake drill and they know what to do in times of disaster," Office of Civil Defence regional spokesperson Pebbles Lluz told AFP. The two fatalities were an 18-year-old woman who was hit by falling debris in Ormoc City in Leyte, while one body was retrieved from the collapsed building in Kananga. The earthquake also damaged houses and schools, ...
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