At least 19 people have been killed and more than 200 others injured in a powerful earthquake that struck the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines on Monday.
The quake of magnitude 7.8, hit off the shores of General Santos City in Sarangani province, the southern end of the Mindanao island, at around 7:37 a.m. local time at a depth of about 35 kilometers, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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