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This photograph shows destroyed houses after a landslide in Maco, Davao de Oro, Philippines.
A landslide left at least six other people dead and 46 others missing, as well as miners waiting in two buses to return home to a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday.
Army troops, police and volunteers rescued 31 villagers injured in the landslide that hit the mountain village of Masara in the remote city of Maco in Davao de Oro province on Tuesday afternoon. They resumed the search Wednesday morning after postponing it the night before. due to fears of more landslides, officials said.
More than 750 families have been moved to evacuation centers since the landslide struck, disaster response officials said.
Among the missing were 27 miners who were waiting to be taken home in two parked buses when the landslide struck on a clear day, Davao de Oro provincial spokesman Edward Macapili said.
Eight miners who were among those waiting jumped out of the bus windows or dashed away and survived. A third bus had already left, Macapili said.
The torrential rains that have flooded the region from time to time in recent weeks have subsided and the weather has been clear for the past three days, he said.
“It happened very quickly,” Macapili said by phone. “They saw that the landslide was heading directly towards them. “
Three seriously injured people will be evacuated by helicopter, regional army spokeswoman Col. Rosa Rosete-Manuel said by telephone.
Earthquakes that have struck in months have destroyed buildings in the southeastern region, and more than a dozen villagers have died in weeks due to flooding and landslides, according to crisis aid officials.
A landslide buried a space and killed 10 others last month in the city of Monkayo, also in Davao de Oro province, authorities said.
Associated Press