Awwal 18, 1432 H / April 22, 2011, SPA -- At least 10 people were killed Friday when a landslide buried houses and tunnels in a mining village in the southern Philippines, police and the military said. According to dpa, up to 40 people were feared missing when a portion of a gold-rich mountain collapsed in the village of Kingking in Compostela Valley province, 980 kilometers south of Manila, said Lieutenant Colonel Camilo Ligayo, an army brigade commander. "Our rescue efforts are concentrated in a collapsed tunnel where voices were reportedly heard from the shaft," Ligayo said. Senior Superintendent Aaron Aquino, the provincial police commander, said rescuers have so far recovered 10 bodies from the rubble. Six people were rescued and brought to nearby hospitals for treatment, he said. Ligayo said army dogs were brought in to help policemen, soldiers and civilian rescuers search for survivors but admitted that authorities were bracing for the worst.
