Philippine landslide leaves 1 dead, 40 missing
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A landslide loosened by a downpour buried bunkhouses and entryways to gold-mining tunnels before dawn Friday, leaving one miner dead and about 40 others missing in a remote mountain area in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Army troops, policemen and other miners rescued five men and a woman who were trapped in the landslide and in one tunnel in a remote village in Pantukan town in Compostela Valley province. Air force helicopters, bulldozers and backhoes have been deployed to help in the search and rescue, Pantukan Mayor Celso Sarenas said. (AP)
