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Mudslides Kill Scores In The Philippines
Mudslides have claimed scores of lives in the rain-drenched Philippines.
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MANILA, Philippines (October 9, 2009)--Rescuers have retrieved more than 160 bodies after dozens of landslides buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines, officials said.
About 450 people have been killed in the country's worst flooding in 40 years after back-to-back storms started pounding the northern part of the country on Sept. 26.
Officials in the two worst-hit provinces say more than 160 people have died in Benguet and Mountain Province along the Cordillera mountain range, about 125 miles north of Manila.
Gov. Nestor Fongwan said the fatalities include 120 in Benguet, while Mountain Province Gov. Max Dalog put the death toll in his region to 23.
Another 25 people died in Baguio city.
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