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Jan 7th, 2012
(Reuters) - A family weeps while viewing their father a coffin, a victim of a landslide in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley, southern Philippines January 7, 2012. A landslide buried shanty houses in a mining area on a southern Philippine island, killing at least 25 people and leaving dozens missing, local disaster and security officials said on Thursday. The incident, the second one in Pantukan town in almost nine months, took place near the Kingking area on the southern island of Mindanao, said to be one of the world's largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits. REUTERS/Stringer (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER) -
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