1,800 Deaths Feared in Landslide ; Philippine Village Buried Under Mud
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 20, 2006
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MANILA, Philippines The farming village is gone, swallowed whole by a wall of mud and boulders that swept down with terrifying speed Friday from a mountainside in the eastern Philippines.
Lt. Col. Raul Farnacio, the highest-ranking military officer at the scene, estimated the death toll at about 1,800 nearly every man, woman and child who lived in Guinsaugon.See the full content of this document
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1,800 Deaths Feared in Landslide ; Philippine Village Buried Under Mud
"Out of a population of 1,857, we have 57 survivors and 19 bodies," a grim Farnacio said as search efforts r...
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