The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has instructed its migrant office in Jeddah to monitor the progress of the search and rescue operations following a building collapse in Saudi Arabia on Friday, May 31. As of Sunday, June 2, the DMW reported that there was no Filipino casualty in the building...
About 30 Filipinos are affected after a four-storey building in Qatar collapsed on Wednesday. In a statement, the Philippine Embassy in Qatar said it is currently attending to the needs of the affected individuals and determining further intervention if necessary. It also urged the Filipino...
Malabon City Mayor Jeannie Sandoval lauded on Monday, Dec. 5, the city rescuers and volunteers for successfully saving a woman who was trapped inside a four-story residential building that collapsed in Barangay Longos on Sunday, Dec. 4. The mayor thanked those who responded to the incident which...
TEHRAN, Iran -- The death toll from the collapse of an Iranian building two weeks ago has risen to 41 after three more bodies were found, local authorities said Monday. The 10-storey Metropol building that was under construction in Abadan in southwestern Khuzestan province collapsed on May 23,...
BEIJING, China -- Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction. The commercial building in Changsha city caved in last Friday, prompting over six days of...
BEIJING, China -- Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments, a hotel and a cinema caved in and emergency workers launched a massive rescue operation to pull out survivors. The...
Rescuers reenforce a building next to the collapsed self-constructed residential building in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, April 30, 2022. Five people have been rescued, and 23 others remain trapped after a self-constructed residential building collapsed Friday in central China's Hunan...
This aerial photograph taken on April 29, 2022 shows rescuers working after a six-storey building collapsed in Changsha, in China's central Hunan province. CNS / AFP BEIJING, China -- Dozens of people were trapped under a building which collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as...
SURFSIDE, United States – A high-rise oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach partially collapsed early Thursday, killing at least one person and leaving 99 unaccounted for, with fears the toll may rise much higher as rescuers comb through the rubble. An unknown number of residents are...
