Officials Philippines discovered a crack dangerous Sunday in a mountain affected by a deadly landslide last week and want the troops to dozens of gold miners illegal force to evacuate before another disaster their remote village in the South.
Environment and natural resources Secretary Ramon Paje said that he and other officials discovered the long crack of 70 metres on a slope of mountain above the village of Kingking during an aerial survey.
Part of the slope of the mountain along the crack collapsed after a rain downpour Friday and buried several yards below, leaving at least five dead and 17 missing.
Rescuers search for victims of landslide Friday at a mining camp in the southern Philippines. (Jeffrey Maitem/Associated Press)Soldiers of the army, police and minor colleagues resumed the search for persons missing in the collapse Sunday hoped that all surviving more could be removed about 30 metres of mud, rocks and debris buried several cabinsthe dormitories and the illegal gold miners tents in Kingking near the town of Pantukan in the province of Compostela Valley, officials said.
Approximately 13 persons were excavated by the muck since Friday.
Unstable Earth along two-thirds of the deep crack could collapse with the next rain and burying about 30 cabins and bunkhouses inhabited by prospectors of gold in Kingking, Paje said.
"It is really critical," Paje said Associated Press by telephone from Pantukan. "This mountain slope is very sensitive to another landslide."
PAJE, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, air survey said that they discussed with provincial, the army and police officials in the Valley of Compostela how minors of gold could be evacuated immediately safe.
Despite the danger, hundreds of poor villagers dug gold tree dangerous close distant villages like Kingking for years. Many have ignored the warnings and defied occasional Government crackdowns on illegal mining by the undermanned military and police.
"They tell us that they would die in a disaster that die of starvation,", said the Mayor of Pantukan Celso Sarenas.
PAJE said that he and the other members of the Cabinet are under the orders of the President Benigno Aquino III to take measures to prevent more deaths in the region of the extraction of gold, which has been hit by fatal accidents in the past.
"The Government has the power to conduct an evacuation forced when the danger is really high", Paje said.
Landslide Friday covered one hectare (at least 2.5 acres) of Kingking and buried more than a dozen cabins, dormitories and tents, where miners of gold remains some with their families, police said.
A similar landslide killed 26 people in a village of Pantukan in 2009, said police.
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