Hopes fade for missing Philippines landslide victims

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.

Hopes fade for missing Philippines landslide victims

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.

Weary search teams recovered another 14 bodies from Guinsaugon, a farming village where up to 1,800 people died when they were buried in mud up to 30 feet deep on Friday. Five people were killed in a landslide elsewhere in the Philippines.

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