One person was killed and 41 injured on Sunday when a powerful aftershock hit a southern Philippine city still recovering from an earthquake last month, authorities said.

The 5.9-magnitude quake struck the southern city of Surigao and surrounding areas, causing two houses and several walls to collapse, government seismologists and civil defense officials said.

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