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More than 30 people are thought to be missing following the landslide in Cebu<\/p>\n
Rescue workers are racing to find dozens of people still missing following a landslide at a landfill site in the central Philippines earlier this week, an official has said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Nestor Archival said on Saturday that signs of life had been detected at the site in Cebu City, two days after the incident.<\/p>\n
Four people have been confirmed dead so far, Archival said, while 12 others have been taken to hospital. <\/p>\n
Conditions for emergency services working at the site are challenging, the mayor added, with hazards such as unstable debris and crew waiting for better equipment to arrive. <\/p>\n
The privately-owned Binaliw landfill collapsed on Thursday while 110 workers were on site, officials said.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post on Saturday morning local time, Archival said: “Authorities confirmed the presence of detected signs of life in specific areas, requiring continued careful excavation and the deployment of a more advanced 50-ton crane.”<\/p>\n
Conditions for rescue workers at the site are difficult, with the wreckage still unstable.<\/p>\n
Relatives of those missing have been waiting anxiously for any news of their whereabouts. More than 30 people, all workers at the landfill, are thought to be missing.<\/p>\n
“We are just hoping that we can get someone alive… We are racing against time, that’s why our deployment is 24\/7,” Cebu City councillor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the city’s disaster council, told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
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Relatives of the missing are waiting anxiously for any news of their loved ones<\/p>\n
Jerahmey Espinoza, whose husband is missing, told Reuters news agency at the site on Saturday: “They haven’t seen him or located him ever since the disaster happened. We’re still hopeful that he’s alive.”<\/p>\n
The cause of the collapse is still unclear, but Cebu City councillor Joel Garganera previously said it was likely the result of poor waste management practices.<\/p>\n
Operators had been cutting into the mountain, mining the soil, and then piling garbage to form another mountain of waste, Garganera told local newspaper The Freeman on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Binaliw landfill is about 15 hectares (37 acres).<\/p>\n
Landfills are common in major Philippine cities like Cebu, which is the trading centre and transportation gateway of the Visayas, the archipelago nation’s central islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP via Getty Images More than 30 people are thought to be missing following the landslide in Cebu…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-506461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115871605968999688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}