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WORLD NEWS Thursday 28 July 2022

Strong quake kills 5, injures dozens in northern

Philippines

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON
FAVILA
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) A
strong earthquake set off
landslides and damaged
buildings in the northern
Philippines on Wednesday,
killing at least five people
and injuring dozens. In the
capital, hospital patients
were evacuated and ter-
rified people rushed out-
doors.
The 7-magnitude quake
was centered in a moun-
tainous area of Abra prov-
ince, said Renato Solidum,
the head of the Philippine
Institute of Volcanology
and Seismology, who de-
scribed the midmorning
shaking as a major earth- A damaged building lies on its side after a strong quake hit Bangued, Abra province, northern
quake. Philippines on Wednesday July 27, 2022.
“The ground shook like I Associated Press
was on a swing and the
lights suddenly went out. when hit by falling cement less than a month ago, and companions were
We rushed out of the office, slabs in his house in Abra, planned to travel Thursday traveling downhill in two
and I heard screams and where dozens of others to meet victims and local vans in Mountain Province
some of my companions were injured. In Benguet officials. when they suddenly heard
were in tears,” said Michael province, a worker was Marcos Jr. told a news thunder-like thuds and saw
Brillantes, a safety officer of pinned to death after a conference he was in an avalanche of boulders
the Abra town of Lagangi- small building that was un- his office at the riverside as big as cars raining down
lang, near the epicenter. der construction collapsed Malacanang presidential just ahead of them from a
“It was the most power- in the strawberry-growing palace complex when the towering mountain.
ful quake I’ve felt and I mountain town of La Trini- chandeliers began sway- Amid screams of his com-
thought the ground would dad. ing and making clanking panions in their van to
open up,” Brillantes told Hundreds of houses and sounds. “It was very strong,” “back up, back up!” the
The Associated Press by buildings had cracked he said of the ground shak- 44-year-old father of three
cellphone. walls, including some that ing. raised his camera in the

At least five people died collapsed in Abra, where In a chilling near-death ex- front seat and snapped
mostly in collapsed struc- President Ferdinand Mar- perience, Filipino photojour- what he feared could be
tures. One villager died cos Jr., who took office nalist Harley Palangchao the final pictures of his life.

Hungary’s leader rebuked for opposing

‘mixed race’ society

By The Associated Press garian media, longstand-
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ing adviser Zsuzsa Hegedus
— One of Viktor Orban’s compared Orban’s rheto-
closest associates has re- ric to the language used in
signed in protest over what Nazi Germany.
she called a “pure Nazi” “I am sincerely sorry that I
speech given by the Hun- have to end a relationship
garian prime minister in due to such a shameful po-
which he railed against Eu- sition,” said Hegedus, who
rope becoming a “mixed worked with Orban for 20
race” society. years.
It was a rare rebuke from “I was left with no other
within the governing ranks choice.”
of the Hungarian leader, While Orban’s anti-migra-
who has long been ac- tion stance and criticism of
cused by the European Western liberal values have Hungary President Viktor Orban arrives at the NATO Heads of
Union of eroding demo- long prompted backlash, State summit in Madrid, June 30, 2022.
cratic institutions and Saturday’s speech sparked Associated Press
norms. a fresh wave of outrage gary. migration from outside
In her resignation letter, throughout Europe and In it, Orban declared that of Europe “are no longer
published Tuesday by Hun- from the opposition in Hun- countries with largescale nations.”q