A two-month-old baby and a 3-year-old girl were rescued alive this Friday, three days after a landslide buried two buses that transported workers from a mining company in the south of the Philippines, leaving at least 11 dead and about 110 missing.

The Philippine Red Cross announced this Friday on its Facebook account that emergency teams They located and rescued the three-year-old girl and the babya child of just two months, and they were immediately taken to the hospital in the town of Mawab, in the province of Davao del Sur, on the southern island of Mindanao.

The president of the Philippine Red Cross, Dick Gordon, has expressed his joy at the discovery of the minors and has conveyed his gratitude to the rescue teams. “I am proud of your hard work and persistence to find each missing person,” he stressed, according to the comment on Facebook.

11 dead and 110 missing

Photographs from the Philippine Red Cross show minors wrapped in thermal blankets being taken by ambulance to the hospital. The Davao de Oro rescue teams had confirmed the discovery of the girl hours before. On Thursday afternoon the Maco disaster agency had reported the latest casualty count, increasing the number of missing from 46 to 110 and the number of deaths from six to 11, as more bodies were found throughout the day. Likewise, more than 1,166 families have been evacuated from their homes due to the risk of avalanches, the agency added.

The event, which occurred around 7:30 p.m. local time (11:30 GMT) on Tuesday as a result of the heavy rains that hit the region, It has also left dozens of people injured, who have already been rescued and of which three are in serious condition. The authorities continue efforts this Friday to locate and rescue the missing.

According to the company Apex Mining, of which the affected workers are part, the accident happened near a mining operation where buses wait for employees. The Civil Defense issued an alert of new rains and possible landslides on Thursday in Eastern Mindanao, while the Maco mayor’s office suspended classes in all schools due to the incident.

Since January 28, the southern Philippines has registered a strong rain storm that has caused avalanches and floods in several areas of Mindanao, including the province of Davao. Since then, at least 18 people have been killed and another 11 injured in other incidents across the island, according to the latest report from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.