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Landslide kills five

Rescuers in the southern pulled five bodies from under tonnes of mud on Friday after days of rains loosened soil and buried several houses near a mining town, police officials said.

Ronaldo de la Rosa, police chief in the Compostela Valley on the southern island of Mindanao, said local residents and volunteers continued to dig under debris of destroyed homes and mud to search for more bodies on the slopes of Mount Diwata.

(China Daily 11/22/2008 page10)