Rescuers pull 50 alive from Filipino school: official

[maddezmom]

MANILA (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled 50 survivors from a school in the central Philippines on Monday, three days after their village was buried in a mudslide, an interior ministry official said on television.

U.S. marines recovered about 50 people from under the rubble at the school in Guinsaugon village, Marius Corpus, an undersecretary of the interior and local government department, told ABS-CBN.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060220/wl_nm/philippines_landslide_dc;_

CNN international saying the number has not been confirmed.

[rodeodance]

1. Wonderful

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I heard at one point the kids

were sending text messages to let people know they were alive. I'm glad they made it.

[jbnow]

3. What great news!!!

Still way too many deaths, but hope had all but been lost

[rooboy]

4. It continues to amaze me...

that if Bush sent the marines around the world to help save lives, America would be popular and he'd be a hero. Of course, the right wing would crucify him...

[panader0]

5. We could do so much good ........ the amount of money spent in Iraq

could have immunized every child in the world for decades, or built public service works etc.

[WePurrsevere]

6. If Bush had sent in the Marines to help NO how many of our own

would still be alive?

Although I'm truly thrilled that they've found more survivors it also proves that there is no reason for the lengthy amount of time it took BushCo to get help to NO.

I agree with the rest of your post as well. I've long agreed with the belief that "one can catch more flies with honey then with vinegar."

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Sending Marines around the world, my ass!

He should have sent some Marines to New Orleans on September 30th to save some Americans.....

[Eugene]

7. Reuters: Hope of Philippine survivor miracle dashed

Hope of Philippine survivor miracle dashed

Feb 20, 2006 — By Bobby Ranoco and Pedro Uchi

GUINSAUGON, Philippines (Reuters) - Hopes were raised and then dashed on Monday that 50 survivors
had been pulled from a Philippine school three days after they had been buried in a landslide that
has obliterated their village.

"We have yet to recover any survivor," Captain Burrell Parmer, a spokesman for U.S. Marines taking
part in the desperate rescue operation, told the ABS-CBN television channel.

Parmer contradicted an earlier report from a Philippine government official who told ABS-CBN that
U.S. forces had unearthed about 50 people from the rubble at a school in Guinsaugon, a remote farming
community about 675 km (420 miles) southeast of Manila with a population of about 1,800.

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Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1640460

I was hoping that the survivor story would be confirmed.

[hlthe2b]

8. Please edit your subject line.. The article says NONE have

been pulled alive... I suspect an earlier erroneous article that you linked to has been updated. Sadly, it appears to be wrong...:cry:

[Sequoia]

9. Damn, first I'm happy, now I'm upset.

[maddezmom]

11. locking

...

:( I wish it had been correct.