MANILA, Philippines — Search and retrieval teams found another cadaver from the landslide site in Compostela Valley Wednesday afternoon as another teams started destroying the houses in the area to prevent small-scale miners and their family from coming back.

1Lt. Salvacion Conejos, head of the monitoring team at the Incident Command Post in Pantukan town, said a total of 37 fatalities are now on their list, with only three of them remain unidentified.

A total of 36 others are in the missing list, she said.

In a phone interview, Conejos said a group of demolition went to Sitio Diat Uno and Diat Dos in Barangay Napnapan to start the demolition of houses in the area.

“There were no resistance because the owners were informed of the dangers of staying,” said Conejos.

The two sub-villages have long been declared as danger zones after cracks were spotted by geologists when they conducted land assessment after a landslide that hit a nearby barangay in April last year.

The local government passed a no habitation policy in the areas declared as danger zones but the local residents, almost of them miners, would not leave.

Conejos could not immediately say the total number of houses that will be subjected to demolition but she said the agreement was that all those in the landslide sites and nearby areas will be destroyed.