BOGO, Philippines (Reuters) -Philippine authorities said on Thursday that search and rescue operations in quake-hit Cebu province have ended, as the current death toll of 72 was not expected to go much higher and missing people had been accounted for.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit the central Philippines late Tuesday has risen to 72 with nearly 300 others injured.

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The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the central Philippines late on Tuesday has risen to 72, the civil defence agency said. The latest death toll was an increase of three from Wednesday and all fatalities were recorded in the central Visayas region.

The earthquake killed at least 69 people, including residents of a village of “disaster-resilient homes” built for people who survived Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

Pope Leo XIV has expressed sympathy for the victims of the Cebu earthquake, relayed through the Apostolic Nuncio following the magnitude 6.9 tremor that claimed dozens of lives.

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The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Thursday afternoon reported a total of 3,036 aftershocks from the magnitude-6.9

The Philippine National Police (PNP) said it has not received any reports of violence or looting in Central Visayas following the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the