ANGELES CITY – And then there were nine. Rescue and retrieval teams recovered two more bodies from the site of the collapsed building here on Sunday afternoon, bringing the death toll to nine. Authorities said that the victims, the eighth and ninth, were extricated at 2:51 p.m. and 3:43 p.m.,...
ANGELES CITY – The seventh fatality in the building collapse here was recovered as search and retrieval operations continue one week after the incident on Sunday, May 31. The Unified Command said the body of an unidentified male was extricated at 7:50 a.m. His remains were turned over to the City...
Search and retrieval operations continued in the collapsed building here Saturday. Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II personally visited affected families and assessed the situation after residents on Oak St. were temporarily stranded due to debris from the collapsed structure and...
The Angeles City government has warned people to remain vigilant against individuals falsely posing as victims or survivors of the building collapse. The city government issued the reminder after the Angeles City Police Office apprehended a man who claimed on social media that he survived the...
ANGELES CITY – Rescue radar equipment detected four moving entities beneath the rubble of the collapsed building here on Friday, May 29. Mayor Carmelo Lazatin instructed responders to immediately intensify rescue operations to locate possible survivors. But this does not automatically confirm the...
Responders pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Angeles City, Pampanga, bringing the death toll to six, as rescue teams continue to navigate heavily unstable concrete debris. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said one of the fatalities...
ANGELES CITY – A fifth body was successfully extricated from the debris of the collapsed building here as search and rescue operations continued early Thursday morning. City officials said that the male victim was carefully pulled out from the rubble at around 7:57 a.m. and was turned over to the...
Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II said the city government will provide psycho-social support, financial assistance, medical and food packages, and transportation arrangements to the victims of the building collapse and their families with the Department of Social Welfare and...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday, May 27, ordered rescuers to continue search and rescue (SAR) operations at the collapsed building site in Angeles City, Pampanga, reversing an earlier shift to retrieval operations announced by disaster...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Three people were killed and three others were injured Tuesday when a decades-old overpass undergoing demolition partially collapsed in the South Korean capital, fire officials said. The accident occurred during a safety inspection after workers halted demolition work...
Newly-installed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Francis Tolentino suspended on Tuesday, May 26, the regional director of Central Luzon following the building collapse in Angeles City over the weekend that has so far left at least four people dead. Tolentino said the one-month...
A legislative inquiry into the collapse of a nine-story building in Pampanga province has been filed in the Senate. In filing Senate Resolution No. 406, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said it is imperative for the Upper Chamber to look into the collapse of the edifice where four persons have...
