ZAMBOANGA CITY: Philippine military and civilian rescuers continued searching on Sunday for missing villagers buried alive in a landslide that hit a mountain community in the southern province of Compostela Valley in Mindanao, officials said.

According to the officials, the rescuers were frantically digging by hands through mud and bolders in Pantukan town where as many as 50 people were earlier reported buried after a portion of the mountain collapsed at dawn of Friday.

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