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PHILLIPINES: 200 SUSPECTED DEAD IN LANDSLIDE February 17, 2006
Kizza Harajah
(SomaliNet) Houses and schools have been buried in Eastern Phillipines leaving 200 dead and about 1500 missing, according to a statement from the Red Cross.
"It sounded like the mountain exploded, and the whole thing crumbled. I could not see any house standing anymore," narrates a survivor, Dario Libaton.
"There is no body count yet, it's our estimate," Sen Richard Burton, Head of the Phillipines Red Cross revealed.
"The ground has really been soaked because of the rain. The trees were sliding down upright with the mud.," said the Phillipine area governor, Rose Lerias.
Many of the dead are feared to be school children.