Families of missing people wait for news of their loved ones as rescue efforts continue at the landslide-hit village of Masara on Feb 7, 2024. - AP
MANILA: At least seven people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide hit a gold-mining village in a mountainous region of the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday (Feb 7).
The landslide Tuesday night struck Masara in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island, provincial disaster official Edward Macapili told AFP, destroying houses and engulfing three buses and a jeepney waiting for mine workers.
