4 buried alive in landslide survive

BAGUIO CITY– Two sleeping couples were buried alive in their house following a huge landslide early Thursday morning but survived.

The victims after being unearthed said before the incident, continuous rains for three days aturated the soil along the slope where their house stood along Marcos Highway here. Police said spouses Ricardo and Maricel Villanueva and Rodolfo and Lorma Butarde were dug out from the mud less than an hour after the landslide at around 3:45 a.m. They were brought to the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center for treatment. The saturated soil from where the two-storey chalet-type residential house gave in and moved it towards the cliff below it.

The landslide was the first incident here as the wet season ushers in.