At least 10 dead in landslide

Race against time: Rescuers conducting a rescue and retrieval operation, a day after a landslide hit a house in Monkayo, where heavy rain has triggered flooding and landslides this week. — AFP

A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people, including five children, officials said.

Two people were injured, and at least one more villager remained unaccounted for following the landslide in a remote mountain village in the gold-mining town of Monkayo in Davao de Oro province, Ednar Dayanghirang, the regional chief of the government’s Office of Civil Defense, said.