i dont know the latest news since i dont have television yet in my new apartment.lex texted me yesterday about the mudlside that occured in Guinsagon,a farming village about 675 km southeast of Manila.The Guinsaugon Elementary School lay at the foot of Can-Abag Mountain, whose steep side collapsed on the village on Friday and covered an area of nine square kilometers in dark brown muck.the massive landslide burried more than 1,400 people,including almost 250 teachers and students.only 46bodies and 57 survivors had been pulled from the reddish soil.
it was a friday's disaster where as more than 200 children and their mothers celebrated women's day at the school.lacking of heavy equipment about 300rescuers must contend with deep shifting mud and unstable mountainside.apart from some iron sheeting,other debris and a lone hut,there was a little evidence that a village once stood there.all they are finding now are dead bodies.the poor agricultural region is desperately unprepared to handle the disaster.one of the doctors said in anhawan hospital,there is nothing more they can do.the victims are in total shock and have serious injuries whose extent they dont know because they dont even have x-ray facilities there.
the situation was so dangerous that most mud volunteers were kept out of the area,a no fly zone was established over the site bec of fears that helicopters downwash could set off a fresh landslide.rescuers cannot go deep but only can focus on the surface because the condition were extremely hazardous.
The USS Essex and the USS Harper’s Ferry, along with 17 helicopters and 1,000 US Marines, were diverted to the scene from planned joint exercises on Jolo and were expected to arrive at daybreak Sunday.
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rescuers search for more bodies trapped in a mudslide that buried houses and an elementary school packed with children in the remote farming village of Guinsaugon, near Saint Bernard town in southern Leyte province, central Philippines February 18, 2006.
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Villagers wade through the mud after a mudslide buried houses and an elementary school packed with children in the remote farming village of Guinsaugon, near Saint Bernard town, in southern Leyte province, central Philippines February 18, 2006.
this really breaks my heart,please pray for all the victims of guinsagon mudslide,i hope they can dig out more survivors and those poor children.my deepest sympathy too to all those families that lost their homes and loved ones in this disaster.