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WORLD NEWS Friday 18 OctOber 2019

Opposition protests suspend Hong Kong assembly session

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong with the city's 180,000 pub-
Kong leader Carrie Lam lic servants and transport
was again forced from the authorities to restore order,
legislative chamber be- although that task was
cause of protests Thursday made harder by members
by opposition members of the public sympathetic
following a bloody attack to the cause of the "rioters,"
on a leader of the nearly as she termed the hard-
5-month-old protest move- core protesters.
ment. However, she was forced
Pro-democracy lawmakers to withdraw amid calls for
shouted and waved plac- her resignation, with pro-
ards depicting Lam with democratic legislator Clau-
bloodied hands, prompt- dia Mo shouting, "Carrie
ing their removal by guards Lam, you are a liar."
and the suspension of pro- The protests began in re-
ceedings. sponse to a now-withdrawn
A day earlier, Lam was extradition bill that would
forced to abandon an an- have allowed criminal sus-
nual policy address in the pects to be sent for trial
chamber, later delivering it in Communist Party-con-
by television. trolled courts in mainland
Disruption in the chamber A pro-democracy lawmaker, center, is taken away as he shouts a slogan while Hong Kong Chief China. The movement then
and the attack Wednes- Executive Carrie Lam arrives at chamber of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, on Thursday, ballooned to encompass
day night on Jimmy Sham Oct. 17, 2019. broader clamors for univer-
by assailants wielding ham- Associated Press sal suffrage, an indepen-
mers and knives marked dent inquiry of the policing
the latest dramatic turn in violence unseen since the priority" was ending the law-abiding center for fi- methods used against pro-
the unrest that has rocked former British colony revert- violence that has dealt nance and business with a testers and other demands,
the city since June. ed to Chinese rule in 1997. a body blow to the local sophisticated independent including ending the de-
Protesters and police have Prior to her departure, Lam economy as well as Hong judiciary. scription of protesters as
both deployed levels of reiterated that her "first Kong's reputation as a safe, Lam said she was working "rioters."q

Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 5

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — and falling objects. Santos city shortly after the
The death toll from a strong The Philippine Institute of quake, but there were no
earthquake in the southern Volcanology and Seismol- reports of people trapped.
Philippines climbed to five ogy said the 6.3 magnitude Vice Mayor Joselito Pinol
people, with dozens more was centered 22 kilome- of North Cotabato's M'lang
injured, officials said Thurs- ters (14 miles) southeast of town said patients were
day. Tulunan in North Cotabato evacuated out of a hos-
The Office of Civil Defense province at a relatively pital to ensure their safety
said two people died and shallow depth of 8 kilome- during the quake. Several
18 were injured in a land- ters (5 miles). More than buildings were damaged,
slide set off by Wednesday 200 aftershocks have been including Pinol's office,
night's quake in Davao del recorded. where the glass-windowed
Sur province's Magsaysay The U.S. Geological Survey facade fell.
town, where a child also placed the magnitude at Schools in quake-hit areas,
was killed after a wall col- 6.4 quake with a depth of including the president's
lapsed on her. 14 kilometers (9 miles). Shal- hometown of Davao city, Debris are scattered on the floor of a damaged store a day after
Officials reported two more low quakes tend to cause suspended classes on a strong quake struck in Digos, Davao del Sur province, south-
deaths elsewhere, includ- more damage than deep- Thursday so buildings can ern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019.
ing a girl hit by a collapsed er ones. be inspected for damage. Associated Press
wall in southern Maguin- Some areas lost power, in- President Rodrigo Duterte
danao province. More cluding the transport hub was in the capital, Manila, a small college in Digos city world's most disaster-prone
than 50 people were in- of Kidapawan city. A fire when the quake struck. in Davao del Sur province countries, with frequent ty-
jured in total, mostly after broke out in the Gaisano Leslie Francisco, a local di- had extensive damage. phoons, earthquakes and
being hit by concrete walls shopping mall in General saster response officer, said The Philippines is one of the volcanic activity. q