Rescue workers searched for survivors on Friday, after the collapse of a landfill in the central Philippines killed at least one person and left 38 missing.<\/p>\n
Dozens of sanitation workers were buried on Thursday afternoon, when a mountain of garbage toppled onto them at the Binaliw landfill, a privately operated facility in Cebu, a city of about one million people and a popular holiday destination.<\/p>\n
At least 12 employees were pulled from the garbage and hospitalised, according to the official Facebook page of city mayor Nestor Archival.<\/p>\n
Rescue workers were “fully engaged in search and retrieval efforts to locate the remaining missing persons”, he said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t know what caused the collapse, it wasn’t raining at all,” said Marge Parcotello, a civilian staff member of the police department in Consolacion, a town that shares a common boundary with the dump site.<\/p>\n
“Many of the victims are from Consolacion,” she said.<\/p>\n
More than 200 people were killed in July 2000, when an avalanche of garbage consumed a Manila shanty town populated by several thousand scavengers.<\/p>\n
The tragedy, the worst of its kind in Philippine history, prompted public outrage over open landfills. Legislation aimed at better regulation of waste management passed months later.<\/p>\n
– AFP\/ RNZ<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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