Burial of mudslide victims begins

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

Burial of mudslide victims begins

Exhausted rescue teams dug through unstable mud at a buried elementary school and village hall where hundreds were trapped inside when a river of mud swept over the farming village of Guinsaugon, killing nearly all its 1,857 inhabitants.

No one had been found alive since Friday, when a mountainside collapsed after weeks of torrential rain on slopes that villagers said were unstable after heavy illegal logging.

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