phillipines:mudslide kills 1800
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:06 am
A whole Phillipino village has been obliterated by a mud slide caused by excessive rain(or maybe an earhtquakes-- intial reports from eye wtinesses suggest possibility of mini earthquake). 59 survivors have been accounted for, but sadly 1800 are feared dead. Every building in the path of the huge fast moving mud-mass was merciliessy crushed, including a school filled with kids which was left buried under 10 metres of earth...
"So many died," said a resident, Eugene Pilo, on local television. "Our village is gone, everything was buried in mud. All the people are gone."
These kind of disasters are not rare in this area,Leyte island(Phillipines), where back in 1991 up to 5000 people were killed by floods and mudslides that were triggered by a typhoon.
soldiers from A nearby US war ship are kindly helping out with the survival efforts by distributing fresh water and aiding the body/survivor search..
"So many died," said a resident, Eugene Pilo, on local television. "Our village is gone, everything was buried in mud. All the people are gone."
These kind of disasters are not rare in this area,Leyte island(Phillipines), where back in 1991 up to 5000 people were killed by floods and mudslides that were triggered by a typhoon.
soldiers from A nearby US war ship are kindly helping out with the survival efforts by distributing fresh water and aiding the body/survivor search..