Uncertain if they were even digging in the right place, rescue workers in the Philippines today tried to find a mud-swamped school mid fears that time already may have run out for finding survivors of a massive landslide.

The threat of more rain-triggered landslides slowed the search for survivors today at a Philippines primary school buried by up to 100 feet of mud after a mountain collapsed on a village.

HIGH-TECH gear detected “signs of life” yesterday at the site of an elementary school buried under mud that swept down a hillside soaked by rain in the eastern Philippines, the provincial governor said.

High-tech equipment has detected sounds at the site of a Philippine school buried by a landslide, US and Malaysian officials said today.

The Philippines government has said 50 survivors have been pulled from a school buried under a mudslide.