Shocked fled from a building as it collapsed during a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines this morning (October 29) in which at least two people died.<br /><br />Part of the municipal hall in Magsaysay town, Davao del Sur, fell down when the strong earthquake which hit the city at 9:04 am local time.<br /><br />Staff said that miraculously nobody was injured from the building collapse and everyone was evacuated before the concrete wall gave way.<br /><br />Local media reported that elsewhere in the region, a 15-year-old high-school student from Davao del Sur province was killed by a hollow block. One other person was killed and several others injured while more are missing.<br /><br />The quake's epicentre was located inland northeast of Tulunan town in Cotabato province, 972km (604 miles) south of Manila, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.<br /><br />It struck the town of Tulunan and other parts of Mindanao just two weeks after a strong quake hit the same area, killing several people and injuring dozens more.
