MANILA — A strong earthquake struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Thursday, killing at least five people and rattling an area still unsettled from a quake that killed at several people two days before.

The earthquake on Thursday, which the United States Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.5, struck about 25 miles southwest of the city of Davao, a regional capital of 1.6 million people.

A village elder was killed in Batasan when the village hall collapsed on him and he was trapped, said Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, the governor of Cotabato Province.

Elsewhere in the province, at least four other people were killed, according to the governor, including a 7-year-old child who was crushed by falling debris and two adults buried in a landslide.