Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC), the operator of the mining site located in Toledo city in the Cebu province, said the disaster occurred in its pit around 4:15 p.m. local time on Monday.
Search and rescue operation began Tuesday morning as the ground was still shaky hours after the landslide, the company said in a statement.
"The company continues its efforts to locate six more persons missing," the company said.
"As of this time, we are in close coordination and communication with affected immediate families and will continue to extend the needed support and assistance," the firm added.
The firm said "incessant rains for the past several months aggravated by (a tropical depression) which hit parts of the Visayas region" during the weekend caused the landslide.
The Philippine Coast Guard said it has sent a rescue team with sniffer dogs to the site to help in the ongoing search and rescue operations.
Reader Comments
RC
The second video, (scary, too!) involves a lesson from surfing while paddling. If what is coming at you is well above you need to be somewhere else! That landslide started from hundreds of feet above where he was and he should have been moving sooner! (On the bright side, he got some good video and presumably is OK since we're seeing it.)
(My guess is that the guy in video #2 was down in the bottom left corner of the end of video #1, where the landslide starts throwing around those heavy equipment vehicles.)
Prayers for those there.
R.C.