MANILA: A southern Philippine governor says a mudslide triggered by heavy rains has buried 30 houses, killing at least 16 people and leaving 20 others missing.Governor Arthur Uy of Compostela Valley province says most of the victims of Monday's landslide were small-scale miners living on the foothills of a mountain where mudslides are common. Uy said Tuesday that the area around Pantukan town-ship had been saturated by rain and that the residents ignored warnings to leave. He says at least 20 people are missing and an additional 14 have been injured, and that the bad weather is hampering the rescue operation.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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