Rescuers search for survivors at the landslide site in Naga City, on the popular tourist island of Cebu. - AFP
MANILA: The death toll from a monsoon landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 22, officials said, as rescuers dug through the night in a frantic search for survivors of the latest tragedy in the storm-hit nation.
Dozens were still missing after part of a massive hillside collapsed on Thursday on several rural communities near Naga on the tourist island of Cebu.
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