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Landslides in southern Philippines kill 26 people
Mudslides have tumbled down a rain-soaked mountain in the southern Philippines, burying dozens of shanties in a gold mining village and killing at least 26 people.
- AP
- Published: 08:19 May 19, 2009
Manila: Mudslides have tumbled down a rain-soaked mountain in the southern Philippines, burying dozens of shanties in a gold mining village and killing at least 26 people.
Governor Arthur Uy of Compostela Valley province said Tuesday that a 50-member police and military rescue team headed to a remote village in Pantukan township to help in the search for at least six people missing a day after the landslides hit.
Uy said residents were searching for the six missing after one mudslide slammed into about 30 shanties, followed by another that swept away a house.
He said about 19 people, most of them miners, were treated for injuries.
Uy said the landslide-prone area was saturated after days of rain and residents had ignored warnings to leave.
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