8 Dead, 60 Hurt as Earthquakes Shake Northern Philippine Isles
At a Glance Two strong earthquakes hit the northern Philippines early Saturday.Several deaths and injuries have been reported. Two strong earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines early Saturday, killing at least eight people, injuring about 60 and damaging ancestral houses famous among tourists. The quakes collapsed homes of stone and wood and roused residents from sleep, said Roldan Esdicul, who heads the Batanes provincial disaster-response office. Footage showed...