Eight people, including a mother and her daughters aged one and four, died and 10 others remained missing in two landslides that hit southern Philippines over the weekend, civil defense officials said Sunday.
Susan Madrid, a training specialist of the Office of the Civil Defense-Northern Mindanao, said the landslide occurred in a community in Maco town in Compostela Valley province. At least 17 people were injured while 70 families have been displaced.
Madrid said the first landslide occurred at around 3:45 p.m. Saturday. At around 3 a.m. on Sunday, another landslide occurred near the site where the first landslide struck.
Quoting field reports, Madrid said the second landslide swept and destroyed some of the evacuation centers where victims of the first landslides were temporarily housed.
Civil defense officials said the landslides were triggered by "continuous rains, heavy downpour of rains in the area."
The provincial disaster coordinating council, aided by local residents and a mining firm, Philippine Army and the police are conducting search and rescue operations for the missing.
Source:Xinhua
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