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A video grab shows Edwin Pamonag, PNRC Southern Leyte Chapter OIC, carrying a landslide victim.*

TACLOBAN, Leyte -- Rescuers were working into the night yesterday trying to reach an elementary school with nearly 250 children and adults buried in a landslide in Saint Bernard town, Southern Leyte, officials said yesterday.

They were among around 1,500 feared missing when the side of a mountain collapsed, flattening the village of Guinsaugon.

Among the people buried inside were local health workers who were celebrating the anniversary of a health program at the school auditorium, said survivors interviewed on local television.

3-year-old cheats
death: a miracle?
BY NINFA R. LEONARDIA

Since the feastday of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11, residents of Panaugao in Barangay 5, Silay City, have been praying the rosary at the Barangay sang Birhen Shrine of Fiat Village every evening.

This is the place where, on that day, three-year-old Joebert Lilia was ran over by a van, and did not only survive, but came out without any injury.

According to Silay Parish priest, Fr. Felix Paquin, lay minister Ricardo Villanueva of the San Diego Parish went to see couple Noel and Marlene Lilia in the Barangay at about 7:30 a.m. and parked his vehicle, described as a small van, near the shrine.

Suspect in killing of RPA
slain, 2 injured in ambush
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

One of the suspects in the killing of a Revolutionary Proletarian Army leader in previous months, died and three others were injured in broad daylight ambush at Brgy. Bagtic, Silay City, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

Silay police probers identified the fatality as Norberto Biñas, one of the suspects in the killing of RPA leader Joemarie Pamuceno, and his wounded companions as Edmundo Solis, Rodrigo Gargallano and Karina Pedregosa.

PO3 Joseph Jaro, Silay PNP desk officer, said Biñas and his three companions were on board a multi-cab vehicle bound for Silay poblacion, when they were ambushed by three unidentified armed men.