Village gone, 1,800 dead in Philippines 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.

Lt. Col. Raul Farnacio, the highest-ranking military officer at the scene of yesterday’s disaster, estimated nearly every man, woman and child in Guinsaugon had died.