Landslides and floods after days of heavy rain in the central Philippines have killed five children.

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 massive landslide rumbled down a mountainside on an eastern Philippine island today, burying hundreds of houses and a school packed with primary students. Red Cross officials estimated 200 people were dead and 1,500 others missing.