{"id":627031,"date":"2026-06-08T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:26:07","slug":"philippines-live-updates-at-least-three-dead-after-powerful-earthquake-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627031\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines live updates: At least three dead after powerful earthquake strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of casualties still being verifiedpublished at 03:58 BST<\/p>\n<p>03:58 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We are seeing reports of deaths, however these have yet to be confirmed officially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities are verifying at least five reported deaths, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A police official has told AFP that at least one person has died and four are injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diego Mariano, an information officer from the Philippine national disaster agency, says reports of casualties are being monitored. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has also been reports of major damage across various infrastructure, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He warns the public to avoid re-entering their homes or other buildings, especially those with signs of damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of casualties still being verifiedpublished at 03:58 BST 03:58 BST We are seeing reports of deaths, however&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-627031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}