MANILA A landslide following days of heavy rain in the central Philippines has killed a one-year-old baby and his five-year-old sister while another child has been rescued.
Civil defence administrator Benito Ramos says about 1,000 residents of St. Bernard township on Leyte Island have sought shelter at a gymnasium and nearby schools after the landslide hit on Sunday.
He said on Monday that one seven-year-old boy who survived was pulled out from the debris about five hours later by a team of local officials, police and soldiers. His condition is unknown.
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The area is prone to landslides and was the scene of one of the Philippines’ worst disasters in February 2006 when a mudslide buried an entire village with more than 1,000 people in Guinsaugon.