Toll in Compostela landslide rises to 31
01/09/2012Rescuers retrieved three more bodies from a landslide that buried part of an illegal gold-mining site in the Compostela Valley, raising the death toll to 31, officials said yesterday.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said the toll could rise with up to 39 while others still unaccounted for. Heavy rains sparked a landslide on Thursday that buried part of the site in the town of Pantukan, Compostela Valley.
There had been confusion over the exact number of missing because authorities said gold prospectors do not necessarily register themselves with local authorities and no proper census was kept..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120109nat2.html
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regulate small-scale mining, then.
"The mountainous region still draws gold prospectors from surrounding areas despite frequent, deadly landslides.
"Their largely unregulated tunnelling has made the mountainside unstable, government experts say, and heavy rains since last month had saturated the earth on top, triggering the deadly earthfall."
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