10 dead after landslide in Philippines

Davao: A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people, including five children, officials said on Friday.

Two people were injured, and at least one more villager remained unaccounted for following the landslide in a remote mountain village in the gold-mining town of Monkayo in Davao de Oro province, Ednar Dayanghirang, the regional chief of the government’s Office of Civil Defence, said.

Three more bodies were found on Friday, after the search was paused mid-afternoon Thursday due to the risk of another landslide.

“They were praying in the house when the landslide hit,” Dayanghirang told The AP on Thursday.