Another tragedy strikes the Philippines but this time due to landslide/mudslides or is it?
Tons of mud and rocks yesterday tumbled down from the mountain after weeks of rains and swallowed a whole village of between 2,000 and 3,000 people, including a schoolhouse filled with children.
Some survivors were seen fleeing naked but hundreds were feared dead and the village of Guinsaugon in St. Bernard town had virtually disappeared from the map in the latest disaster to hit the calamity-prone country.
One official said the dead could run into thousands, but this was not confirmed.
A few years back, mud landslides also occured in that same province and the cause was attributed to forest denudation. I wonder if this is the cause this time. We never seem to run out of tragedies.
