One killed in S. Philippine landslide

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DAVAO CITY, Philippines, Aug. 30-- Landslide hit anew a mining village in southern Philippines, killing one and injuring three others, police said on Friday.

The latest disaster happened in Ngan village, Compostela Valley province Thursday around 9 a.m., local time according to Senior Superintendent Camilo Cascolan, provincial police chief.

Cascolan said villagers dug the body of a 43-year old miner and rescued three others after loose earth and boulders rolled down the hillside in Bango, burying the four victims.

Disaster and police officials believe days of continuous rains in the area triggered the landslide.

Cascolan said the body of the lone fatality was brought to a local funeral parlor while those injured are now undergoing treatment at a local hospital.

On Tuesday, a miner was also killed and three others hospitalized after an avalanche of earth and boulders cascaded down a gold mining community in Agusan del Norte province.

Landslides, cave-ins and other disasters are common in minerals- rich Philippine south, where thousands of people are into unregulated and sometimes hazardous mining activities.

In one accident, at least 50 people were killed when a landslide buried a mining community in Pantukan town, also in Compostela Valley, in 2011.

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