Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried in a huge mud slide laden with rocks, trees and debris, officials said on Saturday. At least 42 people were swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or were hit by debris-filled mud slides in three towns in Maguindanao province, said Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior minister for a five-province Muslim autonomous region. 

The worst storm impact so far was a mud slide that buried dozens of houses with as many as 60 people in the tribal village of Kusiong in Maguindanao’s Datu Odin Sinsuat town, Sinarimbo told. Eleven bodies, mostly of children, were dug up on Friday by rescuers using spades in Kusiong, where about 80 families lived, he said.