The Philippine National Police (PNP) wants to find answers on why that building in Angeles City collapsed “in the interest of truth and accountability” but for now, Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said the main focus is to save as many lives. Nartatez said they deployed a sufficient number...
The Pasig City government on Sunday, May 24, deployed 15 personnel to assist in search and rescue operations following the collapse of an under-construction nine-storey concrete building in Angeles City, Pampanga. It said the personnel were composed of members from its Fire and Rescue Unit and...
ANGELES CITY (AP) — A nine-story building under construction here collapsed before dawn on Sunday, leaving at least one Malaysian tourist dead and at least 21 mostly workers trapped in the rubble, officials said. Two were located alive but could not be immediately extricated. At least 24 workers...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Sunday, May 24, said it has been coordinating with local disaster officials as rescuers raced to locate dozens of workers feared trapped beneath a collapsed nine-story building under construction in Angeles City, Pampanga. OCD deputy spokesperson Diego Mariano...
A nine-storey building under construction in Angeles City, Pampanga collapsed early Sunday morning, May 24, with 22 workers managing to get out while others remain missing, police said. The building collapsed before dawn during a thunderstorm. Police Regional Office-3 chief Police Brig. Gen. Jess...
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...
