Thursday, June 22, 2006
Four killed, one missing in landslide
DAVAO -- Heavy rains set off landslides that buried six houses and killed at least four people, including a child, in a gold-mining mountain village in the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday.
Villagers were looking for a woman who was among those trapped by tons of mud and rocky debris that slid from a mountain during a downpour late Monday in the village of Napnapan in Compostela Valley province, said Antonio Cloma, a disaster response official.
Rescuers dug up the bodies of three men and a four-year-old girl Tuesday. The landslide injured five villagers, who were brought to a hospital, Cloma said.
Almost two weeks of continuous rains have deluged huge areas of Compostela Valley, where many impoverished villagers depend on small-scale gold mining, building their shanties dangerously close to steep mountain slopes where they work, he said.
Compostela Valley lies 940 kilometers southeast of Manila. (AP)
(June 22, 2006 issue)
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