A group of rescue workers had to be rescued themselves today after they became stuck in soft mud while trying to extricate a body from a landslide that entombed a Philippine farming village.

Recovery teams resumed their search at the site of a buried Philippine village today, amid fears that time has run out for finding survivors of a massive landslide.

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.

Searchers burrowing with shovels at the site of a school buried in a massive landslide have no indications that anyone survived the disaster, a Philippine military official said today.

RESCUERS began burying victims of a huge mudslide in the Philippines yesterday as hopes of finding more survivors all but evaporated.

Volunteers with two sniffer dogs dug around a mud-covered elementary school today but found no signs that any of the 250-300 children and teachers inside were still alive two days after a massive landslide.

Rescue workers held little hope today of finding more survivors from a devastating Philippines landslide, saying a farming village was swallowed whole by a wall of mud and boulders that killed up to 1,800 people.

A RAIN-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud in the eastern Philippines yesterday, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in sludge three stories high.

A rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated in an unstoppable wall of mud today, burying hundreds of houses and a school in the eastern Philippines. Red Cross officials estimated 200 people were dead and 1,500 others missing.