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Updated: 8:20 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2006
MANILA, Philippines - Hundreds of villagers were feared dead after a rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in the eastern Philippines on Friday. Twenty-three people were confirmed dead, and at least 1,500 were missing.
It sounded like the mountain exploded, and the whole thing crumbled, survivor Dario Libatan told Manila radio DZMM. I could not see any house standing anymore.
The farming village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island, 420 miles southeast of Manila, was virtually wiped out, with only a few jumbles of corrugated steel sheeting left to show that the community of some 2,500 people ever existed.
there was more that i didnt copy
lets pray for these people too (and that list seems to get longer daily)
Updated: 8:20 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2006
MANILA, Philippines - Hundreds of villagers were feared dead after a rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in the eastern Philippines on Friday. Twenty-three people were confirmed dead, and at least 1,500 were missing.
It sounded like the mountain exploded, and the whole thing crumbled, survivor Dario Libatan told Manila radio DZMM. I could not see any house standing anymore.
The farming village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island, 420 miles southeast of Manila, was virtually wiped out, with only a few jumbles of corrugated steel sheeting left to show that the community of some 2,500 people ever existed.
there was more that i didnt copy
lets pray for these people too (and that list seems to get longer daily)