ITOGON: A Philippine police officer who tried to persuade residents of a mining camp to move to safety as a powerful typhoon approached said they refused to leave, and a day later the storm triggered a huge landslide that buried dozens of people.
Police Senior Inspector Heherson Zambale said on Tuesday that he was stunned to learn that the massive landslide had covered a chapel and bunkhouses in the mountain village, where he and other officials had met with some of the victims a day before the tragedy struck on Saturday.