The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose above 50 on Wednesday, with injured patients overwhelming hospitals on the island of Cebu.
Injured children cried and adults screamed while being treated on beds beneath blue tents outside the Cebu Provincial Hospital, having been wheeled out as a precaution against waves of aftershocks overnight.
They are survivors of the shallow magnitude 6.9 quake that struck late Tuesday off Cebu island's northern end near Bogo, a city of 90,000 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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