MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Three people died and five are missing after water flooded a mine in a mountainous gold rush town in the southern Philippines, police said Monday. Rescuers lowered tubes to pump water out of the mine in the impoverished town of Monkayo during the search for the missing, said provincial police commander Senior Superintendent Albert Ferro. It was not immediately clear how the tunnel became flooded early Sunday but there was heavy rain […]