Rescuers are battling to find dozens of people missing after a landslide buried buses and houses in a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, Ednews reports referring to Al Jazeera.
The landslide, triggered by heavy rains, brought part of a mountainside cascading over a remote village in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island on Tuesday night, killing at least five people, with 31 injured and three evacuated by helicopter.
Provincial government spokesman Edward Macapili said it was not clear how many people may have been trapped in their homes when the landslide hit Masara village.
Five bodies were pulled from the mud, Macapili said, but it was unclear if they were on the buses.
Army troops, police and locals were forced to stop their search late Tuesday because of the darkness and fears of more landslides. The rescue effort resumed on Wednesday morning.