Mudslide victims rescued after 10 days
Published: December 11, 2004
Rescuers Thursday saved a woman and three children who had been buried under rubble for 10 days following a mudslide in the Philippines that killed 840.
A 43-year-old woman, her 3-year-old granddaughter, and two 14-year-old boys survived by drinking water that dripped from the ceiling, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.
Rescuers used drills to break through the concrete roof of a two-story building where 120 people had been trapped and believed dead in the town of Real, 40 miles east of Manila.
The four were weak and dehydrated but otherwise uninjured, rescuers said. They continued their search for up to 20 people who may have been buried alive in the basement, which was used as a chapel by a Christian group.
The building collapsed on Nov. 29 under a sea of mud, boulders and logs loosed by a typhoon and two tropical storms that hit the area over a two-week period in November.
Real is one of three coastal towns hardest hit by the storms that devastated eastern Quezon province. At least 240 were dead or missing in the town.
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