Death Toll in Leyte Landslide Rises to 13 (GMA News)
The death toll in the landslide that marred operations in a geothermal power plant in Leyte last week rose to 13 on Wednesday following the recovery of five more bodies in the area, including one that was discovered late afternoon.
Alberto Ignacio Jr., geothermal projects division vice president of construction firm First Balfour, said the four bodies were retrieved Wednesday morning buried in the ground along the road where they were building a pipe shelter at the time of the landslide.
The workers were on a rig at Energy Development Corporation (EDC)’s Pad 403 at the Upper Mahiao geothermal plant in the Leyte Geothermal Production Field in the mountains of Kananga.
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