The search efforts offered by multinational rescuers on the ground site of Friday's massive landslide will continue here, despite the fact that no survivors were dug out from under the soil, Philippine military said on Tuesday.

"As long as the weather permits, the rescue operation will go through night," said Restituto Padilla, spokesman of the Philippine Air Force.

Padilla said that with the help of U.S. marines and other foreign rescue team, sufficient lighting, electric generators and heat sensors were effectively used to detect any signs of life, especially at the priority location of the buried elementary school classrooms containing more than 240 pupils.

The classroom had been smashed into small pieces by the powerful landslide, rescuers said, with no sign of life and penetrating ground water, the collapsed structure could hardly be shelter for survivors.

Rescuers also conducted search at other points than the school, such as the village hall where hundreds of people were having a party when the disaster happened.

Unfortunately, the search effort on Tuesday has yet to get positive results, although the Philippine authority, foreign rescuers and medical teams had every first aid and transport utilities ready for any possible survivors to be hospitalized, Padilla added.

Amid rumors saying that the rescuers will give up any time soon on Tuesday, Southern Leyte Governor Rossett Lerias said that it depends on the rescue teams' professional decision, but so far no team said it would quit.

With the handiest equipment, U.S. marines went on the digging around the school until 11:00 p.m. Monday night due to increasing ground danger brought by heavy rain.

According to the estimate of Philippine National Disaster Coordinating Council, there were a total of 94 people confirmed dead, including 84 bodies retrieved from the site as of Tuesday afternoon, with 1,023 still missing.

Source: Xinhua