土砂から約６０時間ぶり救出、３歳少女の画像公開　フィリピン

【マニラＡＦＰ＝時事】フィリピン南部ミンダナオ島にある金鉱で発生した土砂崩れに巻き込まれ、約６０時間ぶりに救出された少女の画像が９日、公開された。（写真は、フィリピン・ミンダナオ島ダバオデオロ州の病院で、治療を受ける約６０時間ぶりに救出された少女。フィリピン赤十字提供）
　フィリピン赤十字によると、少女は３歳。同赤十字は少女が防災用毛布にくるまれて搬送される画像などをフェイスブックに投稿した。
　金鉱の村マサラがあるダバオデオロ州当局によると、がれきの下に人が取り残されている可能性があるため、掘削機はあるが使えないとして素手とシャベルで生存者を捜索していた。
　フェイスブックでは、救助隊が泥まみれの子どもを抱いて歩く姿を捉えた映像も拡散された。
　６日夜に発生した土砂崩れは村の家屋を破壊し、鉱山労働者の送迎バス３台などをのみ込んだ。
　この土砂崩れでは２７人が死亡、３２人が負傷、８９人が行方不明となっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/02/13-16:39）

The rescue of a child on Friday nearly 60 hours after a landslide hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has been hailed as a miracle after searchers had given up hope of finding more survivors.
The girl, who the Philippine Red Cross said was three years old, had been among scores of people missing after the rain-induced landslide hit the village.
Officials said later on Friday the death toll had almost doubled to 27.
The girl was earlier found as rescuers used their bare hands and shovels to look for survivors in Masara village on southern Mindanao island, disaster agency official Edward Macapili of Davao de Oro province told AFP.
It's a miracle, Macapili said, adding that searchers had believed those missing were probably dead.
That gives hope to the rescuers. A child's resilience is usually less than that of adults, yet the child survived.
Video of a rescuer carrying the crying, mud-caked child in his arms was shared on Facebook.
We can see in the social media posts that the child did not have any visible injuries, Macapili said.
He said the girl's father saw his child before she was taken to a medical facility for a check-up.
The Philippine Red Cross posted photos on Facebook of their workers carrying the girl, wrapped in an emergency blanket and hooked up to an oxygen tank, into a hospital in nearby Mawab municipality.
The landslide struck Tuesday night, destroying houses and engulfing three buses and a jeepney waiting to pick up workers from a gold mine.
While the death toll increased to 27 from 15, the number of missing fell to 89 from more than 100, official figures showed, as searchers retrieved more bodies.
The number of injured also rose to 32.
- Bare hands -
Rescuers were racing to find anyone else alive in the thick mud as rain fell on Friday.
While they were using heavy earth-moving equipment in places, they had to rely on their bare hands and shovels in areas where they believed there were bodies.
Sniffer dogs were also used to detect those buried in the mud and rubble.
Three buses and a jeepney buried by the landslide had been found at ground zero, Apex Mining, the operator of the mine, said in a statement Friday.
Initial reports said at least 20 workers were trapped inside the vehicles.
Company spokeswoman Teresa Pacis told AFP that no bodies were found inside the vehicles but several bodies were nearby.
Landslides are a frequent hazard across much of the archipelago nation due to the mountainous terrain, heavy rainfall, and widespread deforestation from mining, slash-and-burn farming and illegal logging.
Rain has pounded parts of Mindanao on and off for weeks, triggering dozens of landslides and flooding that have forced tens of thousands of people into emergency shelters.
Massive earthquakes have also destabilised the region in recent months.
Hundreds of families from Masara and four nearby villages have had to evacuate from their homes and shelter in emergency centres for fear of further landslides.
Schools across the municipality have suspended classes.
The area hit by the landslide had been declared a no-build zone after previous landslides in 2007 and 2008, Macapili told AFP.
People were asked to leave that place and they were given a resettlement area, but the people are so hard-headed and they returned, he said.