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Philippine village for typhoon survivors becomes one of deadliest sites of Cebu quake

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A Philippine emergency response personnel walks off from the site of an earthquake-damaged, collapsed facility in Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines, on Oct 1, 2025.

A Philippine emergency response member walking off from the site of an earthquake-damaged, collapsed facility in Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines, on Oct 1.

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Aie Balagtas See, Jason Gutierrez

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The village was meant to be a place of safety: 200 “disaster-resilient homes” for survivors of a devastating 2013 typhoon, paid for by a charity and built to withstand ferocious winds.

But now it is one of the deadliest sites in another natural disaster,

a 6.9-magnitude earthquake

late on Sept 30 centred on Cebu province in the Philippines.

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