Rescuers use bare hands to search for PH landslide survivors

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 08, 2024 2:56 pm

MANILA, Philippines: Rescuers used their bare hands and shovels to dig through mud on Thursday in a desperate search for survivors of a landslide in the Philippines as the number of missing nearly doubled to 90, an official said.

Two days after the rain-induced landslide hit the mountainous gold-mining village of Masara on southern Mindanao island, searchers were in a race against time and weather.

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