Philippines... at least 4 killed in a landslide and dozens missing

Weather of Arabia - A landslide caused by heavy rains in the central Philippines killed at least four people on Thursday, and left dozens missing.

Rescue workers were able to pull out four others alive after boulders and dirt fell from rain on a residential community near a quarry on the outskirts of Naga City on Cebu Island in the central Philippines .

The landslide buried between 20 and 24 homes and trapped everyone inside, according to Dibold Sinas, a district police official.

City council member Carmelino Cruz told ANC news channel that rescue teams are searching for 50-80 people who went missing in the avalanche.

Heavy rains associated with Typhoon Mangkhut over the weekend triggered more than 100 landslides, mostly in the mountainous Cordillera region of Luzon island.

The police said that the death toll nationwide as a result of the storm reached 88, most of whom lost their lives in landslides, and 21 bodies, most of them workers, were found in a small mine in Itogon on Wednesday evening .

Source: Reuters