MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 69 people were killed in a powerful earthquake that hit a central Philippine province…MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 69 people were killed in a powerful earthquake that hit a central Philippine province where dozens of peple were killed by a powerful earthquake Tuesday night. The magnitude-6.9 earthquake that hit at about 10 p.m. trapped an unspecified number of residents in collapsed houses, nightclubs and other businesses in the hard-hit city of Bogo and outlying rural towns in Cebu province, officials said. Army troops, police and civilian volunteers backed by backhoes and sniffer dogs were deployed Wednesday to carry out house-to-house searches for survivors. The earthquake was one of the most powerful to batter the central region in more than a decade and it struck while many people slept or were at home. Rain-soaked mountainsides were more susceptible to land- and mudslides in a major earthquake, he warned.