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| Rescuers pull 50 alive from Filipino school (updated!) | |
| 2006-02-20 | |
Rescuers pulled 50 survivors from a school in the central Philippines on Monday, three days after their village was buried in a mudslide, an interior ministry official said on television. U.S. marines recovered about 50 people from under the rubble at the school in Guinsaugon village, Marius Corpus, an undersecretary of the interior and local government department, told ABS-CBN.
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| Posted by:ed |
| #3 Eds right, false report, too bad. The unregulated logging is the cause here. Happens every year when the rains come. Wherever they clear cut the forest, the following rainy season comes the mudslides. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2006-02-20 18:09 |
| #2 Looks like it was a false report: Hopes were raised and then dashed on Monday that 50 survivors had been pulled from a Philippine school three days after they had been buried in a landslide that has obliterated their village. "We have yet to recover any survivor," Captain Burrell Parmer, a spokesman for U.S. Marines taking part in the desperate rescue operation, told the ABS-CBN television channel. Parmer contradicted an earlier report from a Philippine government official who told ABS-CBN that U.S. forces had unearthed about 50 people from the rubble at a school in Guinsaugon, a remote farming community about 675 km (420 miles) southeast of Manila with a population of about 1,800. ... So far, 84 bodies have been recovered from the village. Relatives have reported 1,371 villagers still missing. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-02-20 08:24 |
| #1 Wow! I was convinced they were all dead. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-02-20 08:18 |