According to news agencies' reports, the death toll of the disaster which hit the village on Friday is likely to be between 1,400 and 1,800.
So far, 109 bodies have been pulled out of the mud, and 57 survivors have been rescued.
ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Saturdaysent a letter of condolence to his Philippine counterpart GloriaMacapagal Arroyo on the death of victims of a landslide in a centralPhilippines village which was
engulfed by a torrent of mud and rockwhen a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on homes and a crowded school.
ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on
Saturday sent a letter of condolence to his Philippine counterpart Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo on the death of victims of a landslide in a central
Philippines village which was engulfed by a torrent of mud and rock when a
rain-soaked mountain collapsed on homes and a crowded school.
(Hina) ms