Eight persons were killed and dozens injured when a series of earthquakes struck islands in the northern Philippines early Saturday, toppling historic buildings and sending terrified locals fleeing from their homes.

The tremors hit the province of Batanes, a group of sparsely populated islets north of the nation’s largest Luzon island, tearing deep cracks in roads and forcing the evacuation of a hospital.

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