At least eight people were killed and one other went missing when a landslide buried two houses during stormy weather in the Philippines' mountainous north, officials said Sunday. Rescuers dug out eight bodies and were searching for one other resident believed to have been entombed late Saturday in an avalanche of mud and rocks that slid down a mountainside in Upper Pitawan village in Ifugao province, the Associated Press quoted the National Disaster Coordinating Council as saying. A boy was injured and two other houses were destroyed by the landslide, according to council official Glenn Rabonza. A local storm swirling off northern Luzon island's western coast has enhanced monsoon rains, swamping several provinces in floodwaters and displacing dozens of people, Rabonza said.
