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12-year-old is latest fatality from Cebu landslide

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<p>NAGA, Cebu - Rescuers pulled out the corpse of a 12-year-old boy from mounds of rock and soil at a residential area in this city before dawn on Monday, as the search for survivors entered its fifth day.</p><p>The landslide struck Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan after heavy rains on Thursday morning, burying dozens of houses near a quarry site.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/21/18/watch-cctv-captures-horrifying-naga-cebu-landslide">WATCH: CCTV captures horrifying Naga, Cebu landslide</a></li></ul><p>The landslide&#x27;s death toll stands at 51 as of 6 a.m. Authorities are searching for 43 missing residents, Cebu&#x27;s disaster office head Baltazar Tribulano told radio DZMM.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sojw4CWpkgY" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Some 4,000 residents have fled from their homes after the landslide. This figure may increase after Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu ordered a forced evacuation of residents within the 1-kilometer radius of the landslide site, said Tribulano.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/multimedia/slideshow/09/22/18/in-photos-landslides-buries-homes-in-naga-city-cebu">IN PHOTOS: Landslides buries homes in Naga City, Cebu</a></li></ul><p>Cebu was not directly hit last week by typhoon Ompong, but has been pounded by heavy monsoon rain for days, making the slopes dangerously loose.</p><p>The Cebu landslide came as searchers in the Philippines&#x27; north continued to work to recover bodies of dozens of people buried in a landslide unleashed Saturday by Ompong.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/23/18/more-dead-unearthed-from-itogon-landslide-as-new-typhoon-nears">More dead unearthed from Itogon landslide as new typhoon nears</a></li></ul><p>Most of the 95 people killed by Ompong died in landslides in the mountainous gold-mining Cordillera region that includes Itogon, Benguet.</p><p>Ompong also dumped torrential rains on the key agricultural areas of Luzon, causing crop losses that would likely total some P14 billion.</p><p>Typhoon Paeng is moving closer to the northern Philippines and has strengthened on Monday morning, state weather bureau PAGASA said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/24/18/paeng-strengthens-approaching-ompong-mauled-north">Paeng strengthens, approaching Ompong-mauled north</a></li></ul><div><strong>- With reports from Leleth Ann Rumaguera, ABS-CBN News; Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>NAGA, Cebu - Rescuers pulled out the corpse of a 12-year-old boy from mounds of rock and soil at a residential area in this city before dawn on Monday, as the search for survivors entered its fifth day.</p>

NAGA, Cebu - Rescuers pulled out the corpse of a 12-year-old boy from mounds of rock and soil at a residential area in this city before dawn on Monday, as the search for survivors entered its fifth day.