MANILA: Landslides in the Philippines killed four people, authorities said Thursday, as heavy rains driven by a tropical depression raked the country’s north and forced school closures.
The archipelago nation’s main island Luzon has been battered by heavy rains over the past four days.
Government offices and schools were ordered closed in the capital and across a swathe of northern provinces due to the rain.
In Benguet province, a six-hour drive north of Manila, a hillside gave way and collapsed on a small restaurant on Thursday, burying three employees who had been in the kitchen.
“One is alive. Two were dead on the spot,” Col. Dionisio Bonoy of the Benguet provincial police told reporters.
