A two-year-old girl died when a landslide struck their house in Socorro town, Oriental Mindoro Friday afternoon.
The victim was identified as Joanna Mae Ayen.
According to report submitted to Police Lt. Imelda Tolentino, regional police information officer of the Police Regional Office 4B, the victim was at their house in Barangay Mabuhay-Dos when the incident occurred at around 1 p.m.
Report said that a mass of earth just above their home suddenly crumbles.
Joanna was immediately rushed by his father to Grace Mission Hospital however, succumbed to injuries.
The Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said, the landslide was triggered by heavy rains for approximately three hours prior to the tragedy.