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Police authorities rescued at least nine people from a landslide that hit the gold-rush area in Mt. Diwata, Monkayo, this province around 6 a.m. Thursday.

Compostela Valley police director Sr. Supt. Ronald dela Rosa said a house belonging to the Elimino family was destroyed after the landslide hit Purok 17 in Mt. Diwata.

The nine victims were immediately rescued by policemen who rushed to the area upon receiving the report.

First to be rescued were James Tumala, 16; Grace Sorilla, 25; JC Atun, 22; and Junjun Ayco, 21.

Four hours later, the police also recovered Michael Cañete, house owner Felix Elimino, Samuel Catzo, Ariel Daghay and Rex Gomez.

All victims were rushed to a nearby health center. - PNA

sad to think that despite strings of well publicized incidents involving communities that get covered by mudslides follwing heavy rains, and warnings from authorities for people living in similar surroundings to vacate and seek safer havens, the same thing happens over and over. sad. sad.

Too much exploitation of nature creates imbalance and destroys its steady state. This natural law has been abused time and time again. It's so unfortunate. "When shall we ever learn!" -Peter, Paul and Mary.

amen.

i dont think the rest of the people will ever learn.it happened too often in mt.diwalwal landslide and some chaos.once you live with it,you started to get used to it.too bad for the new generations what future awaits them?

2nd landslide na ni siya this week. the first one isa ang patay... flashfloods, landslides and heavy rains ang na experience karon dire sa Mindanao and Visayas.

i hope it'll get over soon.i grew up in depo,which is near mt diwata.i am affected on what was going on back home.Some of my friends are having this experience right now.I had lost many of them (friends)in my childhood and still a nightmare for me till now.Yes thats true.visayas and mindanao are having difficulties this time coz of this landslide.One of the reason is Minning cost too much ruining the nature and cost life of human being.