TACLOBAN (Philippines), Feb 17: About 200 people were believed killed and 1,500 others were missing in the central Philippines on Friday when a landslide buried an entire village. Eyewitnesses said only a few houses were left standing after the side of a mountain collapsed and slammed into the village of Guinsaugon in the south of the Philippine island of Leyte.
“There are about 1,500 missing, 200 dead,” Richard Gordon, the head of the Philippine Red Cross, said in a radio interview. The first footage from the devastated village showed a sea of mud covering what had been lush green valley farmland. The mud was estimated to be at least six metres deep.—AFP
