Mindanao Quake, Day 3: Toll Hits 45 as Relief Pushes Into Cut-Off Towns
The Glan landslide alone killed 14. More than 149,000 people are affected, and the first big relief convoys are landing. The latest numbers and how help is moving.
Three days after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Sarangani, the Office of Civil Defense has raised the death toll to 45: eighteen in Sarangani province, twelve in General Santos City, three in South Cotabato, and four in Davao Occidental, with a single landslide in Glan accounting for fourteen of the dead.
As of the 10 June bulletins, 630 people are injured and 17 remain missing. The disaster now touches 33,596 families, more than 149,000 people, across 184 barangays.
Where relief stands
The response has shifted from rescue to relief, with search teams still working collapsed structures in General Santos.
Army units from the 10th and 6th Infantry Divisions are running humanitarian assistance and disaster-response operations across the affected provinces.
The Philippine Coast Guard deployed 150 responders to General Santos to work building collapses and search for the missing.
DSWD relief distribution has reached evacuation centres, with the Office of the Vice President's food truck serving hot meals to frontliners and the GMA Kapuso Foundation targeting relief packs for about 5,000 families.
Aftershocks continue, including strong ones, and Phivolcs has kept warnings active. Cut-off barangays in the landslide zones remain the hardest to reach.
The rebuild bill arrives
In the Senate, Kiko Pangilinan filed a bill seeking 15 billion pesos in additional funding for relief and rehabilitation: schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, and livelihood support for families whose income the quake destroyed. The school damage alone is substantial; DepEd counts close to 200 classrooms destroyed in the same week the school year opened. Our companion piece covers what the quake means for the new school year.
For kababayan in Singapore
The practical playbook from day one still holds: reach family through text and Messenger before voice calls, send help through organisations that publish accounting, and treat stranger GCash numbers in group chats as unverified by default. Our guide on helping from Singapore walks through the channels, and if you are topping up the padala this week, compare transfer costs first via our remittance guide.
Casualty and damage figures are moving by the day as teams reach isolated areas, and numbers differ between agencies while counts get verified. The NDRRMC and OCD bulletins are the running source of record; we will keep updating as they do.
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