Children killed as landslide buries shanties

Torrential rains triggered a landslide in Manila that killed eight people when it hit a row of shanties.Troops and police dug frantically to save those buried in the mud. The bodies of all the victims, including four children, were recovered.

TV footage showed rescuers dangling on ropes to bring residents to safety from flooded houses. Tens of thousands were evacuated.La Mesa dam, which supplies water to the Philippine capital’s 12 million people, began spilling excess water into already swollen rivers yesterday.Typhoon Saola battered Manila last week, killing 53.