Philippine troops on Tuesday forcibly evacuated more than 100 residents from a gold-mining village hit by a landslide last week, killing at least 10 miners, the military said. Lieutenant Colonel Lyndon Paniza said 112 people were escorted by soldiers out of Kingking village in Pantukan town in Compostela Valley province, 980 kilometres south of Manila, amid threats of more landslides, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA". Paniza said rescuers had also called off the search for at least 15 people still missing from the accident on April 22, but relatives of the victims who continued to scour the area recovered two more bodies Tuesday. "We already stopped our retrieval operations but the relatives of the victims were still searching on areas where they suspect their relatives were buried," he said. Paniza said the two bodies remained unidentified.
