By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
At least six people have been killed and more than seven are missing after a landslide hit a cluster of hillside homes in a southern Philippine village, a local official said.
Jovencio Angera, head of a village council in Maco township in southern Compostela Valley province, said the landslide Saturday buried more than 10 houses.
The mudslide, which followed three days of continuous rains, also hit a motorcycle taxi terminal and a party of people playing cards in the village of Masara.
Angera said he knew of at least seven people who were still missing. Other villagers told reporters there could be more than 50 people buried under mud and boulders.
Roger Corales, who escaped unharmed, said he saw people crying for help as they slowly disappeared under the earth, their hands trying desperately to grasp something to hold on to.
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