11. Civil defense officer Franklin Castillo said five other people died Sunday in Maria Aurora, Aurora province, when landslide buried several houses. 12. Huge fissures scarred the earth, and landslides buried whole villages. 13. Landslides buried several villages in a remote southern area near a volcano and six people were missing, officials said Thursday. 14. Most important, they will probably have to set up abodes elsewhere so that landslides do not bury their homes as before. 15. Most of the casualties came in the mountainous northern provinces of Phong Saly and Huaphan, where flood-triggered landslides buried homes and littered rice fields with boulders. 16. Nationwide train services were virtually paralyzed as sections of major trunk lines were buried by landslides or submerged by flood waters, rail authorities said. 17. Mountain passes near Hualien were closed to hikers as officials feared that climbers could become stranded in the mountains or buried by landslides. 18. Nationwide train service was virtually paralyzed as sections of major trunk lines were buried by landslides or submerged by flood waters, rail authorities said. 19. State officials said a woman died near the mountain town of Escuintla when a landslide buried her house. 20. Subsequent landslides buried entire villages. |