Four survive in collapsed Philippines building for 10 days

Rescuers yesterday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed in Philippines mudslides 11 days ago, while officials raised the death toll from back-to-back storms that devastated the northeast of the country to at least 842 people.

More than 750 people are missing. The four survived by drinking "any kind of liquid that dripped" from the rubble that entrapped them, said Maria Tamares, 49, who was pulled alive together with her 3-year-old granddaughter and two teenage boys in Real, about 70km east of Manila.

They were apparently holed up in the kitchen of the two-storey building buried under mud on November 29.