MANILA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers on Friday resumed searching for six missing foreign nationals who went missing while hiking in a central Philippine volcanic mountain.
Police said the male hikers, three German nationals aged 67, 60, and 58, a 38-year-old Russian, a 63-year-old British, and a 50-year-old Canadian, left around 8 a.m. local time on Wednesday to climb the Mount Talinis, located southwest of Valencia, a town in the Negros Oriental province.
The hikers were reported missing Thursday after they failed to return to their rental house.
Local authorities immediately conducted a search and rescue on Thursday but did not find the hikers on the trail.
Mount Talinis is described as a complex volcano at about 1,903 meters above sea level, and it is the second-highest mountain on Negros Island after Mount Kanlaon. ■
