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Show LEIGPEDO EO EE * Monday, February 20, 2006 DAILY CODED OE Foe HERALD Filipino mixstide victims buried in mass grave in helicoptercrash released mass graves. Hrvoje Hranjski At acemetery five miles from Guinsaugon, a Roman Catholic THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS GUINSAUGON,Philippines — Marine . Jeff O'Donnell ‘lost his home in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina, but he was still shaken by the devastation left by a river of mud that _. Namesof U;S. troops killed Sent to aid Filipino teams _ ging through muck einai ioe as hope for finding survivors _ Tapidly faded. Only about two dozen battered, dazed people have been rescued from the debris left by Friday's disaster, whichleft some1,800 people missing and presumed dead. bags, others in cheap wooden coffins, then saida prayer through a mask worn to ee out the stench.” Volunteers lowered the bodies to men who placed them side by side at the bottoni of the ee The only witnesses werelocal healthofficials, the provincial governor, some of her staff and a few nearby residents. Some evacuees from the landslide watched from the window ofa nearby Catholic sehool. WALLY SANTANA/Associated Press. Twenty morebodies were to Filipino volunteers are carried across a swollenriver as they be buried there today. arrive to help searchfor bodiesin the landslide on Sunday in at the oePresident'Glovillage in Leyte, of Manila, Arroyosaid Sunday that“all the efforts of our A woman who escaped the destruction said the first inkling of the calamity was a mild shaking of the roan, followed by a loud boom anda roar that sounded like manyairplanes. “I looked up to the mountain and I saw the ground and boulders rushing down,”said Alicia Miravalles. Florencio Libaton,an injured villager,told of being caught by the soupy mush while trying to flee with his wife. He said he was rolled and tossed among government continue and will boulders andtree trunks that were swept downthe adjacent mountainside. “I said, ‘God,is this how we are going to die” ” Libaton recalled at Anahawan District . Hospital, where he and 20 other ton’s wife, Porfiria. He feared he also lost his children — a son and two daughters — whenthe mudburied the village's elementary school, along with 250 to 300 children andteachers. Weary search teams found more than a dozen bodies Sunday, raising the numberof confirmed deaths to 72. With nooneleft to claim the dead and bodies quickly starting to decompose in thetropical heat, officials ordered them buried in ‘ C3 injured were taken. Rescuers found him pinned undera tree trunk and mud.“I yelled out, ‘Help! Help!’ Then they pulled meout after digging not stop while there is hope to find survivors.” But those hopes faded each hour as no moresurvivors were found for a second straight day. Twoshiploads of U.S. Marines arrived off Leyte island Sunday to help,diverted from military The Pentagon said the Ma- THE ASSOCIATEDPress # rines killed in the crash were: Theaircraft and eight Sgt. Luis M. Melendez Sanchez, 33, of Bayamon, Puerto » Ist Lt; Brandon R. Dronet, JACKSONVILLE,N.C. —. 33, of Erath, La. » Sgt. James F. Fordyce, 22, Ten USS.service members died of Newtown Square,Pa. whena pair of Marine Corps » Lance Cpl. Samuel W. helicopters from a unit based , Taree, Jr., 21, of Villa Rica, Ga. in North Carolina crashed » Sgt. Donnie Leo F. Levens, off the coast of Africa, U.S. 25. of Long Beach, Miss. military officials confirmed » Cpl: Matthieu Marcellus, Sunday. The two CH-53Echoppers; 31, of Gainesville, Fla. carrying a dozen crew and Sgt. Jonathan E. McColley, 23, of Gettysburg, Pa. troops from a U.S.counter» Lance Cpl. Nicholas J. Soterrorism force, went down during training flight Friday vie, 20, of Ogdensburg, NY. in the Gulf of Aden, near the » Capt. Bryan D. Willard, 33, of Hummelstown,Pa. northern coastal town of Ras Siyyan in Djibouti. Alsokilled in the crash were Two crew members who Senior AirmanAlecia S. Good, wererescued weretaken in 23, of BroadviewHeights, stable condition to the U.S. Ohio,of the 92nd Communicamilitary's Landstuhl Regional tions Squadronat Fairchild Air Medical Center in Germany. Force Base, Wash.; and Staff Marines were from Marine HeavyHelicopter Squadron 464, based at Marine Corps Air Station New River. Two Air Force airmenkilled were from bases in Washington state and Virginia. “Weweredevastated,” said Marine Corps Ist Lt. Paul Tremblay, whois based at CampLejeune, the huge post on .¢ Atlantic Ocean ti:ct's next exercises elsewherein the Philippines. A unit of 32 started digging at the school, anda total of 9 the NewRiverair station. “It 200 Marines had comeashore by’sunset. Hundreds more were | tucs us very hard as Marines whenwelose anyone.” expected today. 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