Dozens missing after Philippine landslide

     At least one person has been killed and 40 more are missing after a landslide¹(塌方) struck homes and destroyed mining tunnels in the southern Philippines.

    Mud and rocks buried miners' houses in the remote village in Compostela Valley province on the southern island of Mindanao.

    The landslide also caused the collapse² of access tunnels used by small-scale miners to extract gold.

    Rescue teams, troops and helicopters have been sent to the village.

    The landslide struck the village at about 0300 (1900 GMT Thursday).

    "There are 40 still missing and that is a conservative estimate," a military spokesman, Lt-Col Camilo Ligayo, told AFP news agency.

    "The landslide is massive and these people, the small-scale miners, work and live on the slopes. They have bunkers, houses, stores," he added.

    At least six people have been pulled alive from the landslide. Military helicopters were on hand to ferry the injured to hospital.

    But officials said rescue efforts were being hampered³ because the landslide had blocked roads.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

3 hampered   

妨碍，束缚，限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
• So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。