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29 feared dead, 1,200 evacuated as fresh landslide hits Philippines
Troubled Philippines is still reeling from the effect of super typhoon Mangkhut after fresh landslides near a limestone quarry on Cebu island claimed 29 lives.
Police said more than 1,200 people have been evacuated, most of them forcibly, from the area on Thursday night, according to The Associated Press.
Read also: Death toll rises to 7 as tropical storm Florence is predicted to batter eastern US states for days
Rescue operations resumed on Friday after a hillside collapsed and surged down on about 24 houses in two rural villages in Naga city on Thursday.
Relatives of those buried pleaded for more backhoes to be brought in as many rescue workers were using shovels to dig.
“They are still under the rubble, they are still there. They are covered in shallow earth, we need a backhoe,” resident Nimrod Parba, who had 13 relatives entombed by the landslide, was quoted as saying.
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