Earthquake
Philippine Quake Knocks Over Building; at Least 3 Dead PORAC, Philippines—A strong earthquake killed three people and trapped at several others April 22 in a collapsed building that housed a supermarket in a northern Philippine province, where an international airport terminal was closed due to damage, officials said. Mayor Condralito dela Cruz of Porac town in Pampanga province, north of Manila, said rescuers pulled two survivors from the collapsed building, where other trapped people could be heard screaming for help as rescuers struggled to save them. An Associated Press photographer saw a third survivor and the body of a woman being extricated by rescuers from the rubble late April 22. The rescue work picked up pace after four cranes arrived at the scene, where Red Cross volunteers, police and soldiers helped out. A child was one of two dead people pulled out from the rubble earlier in the day. The leg of one of the two survivors had to be amputated to extricate h...