{"id":4881,"date":"2026-01-10T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/death-toll-in-philippines-landfill-collapse-hits-4-dozens-still-trapped\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:35:39","slug":"death-toll-in-philippines-landfill-collapse-hits-4-dozens-still-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/death-toll-in-philippines-landfill-collapse-hits-4-dozens-still-trapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Philippines landfill collapse hits 4, dozens still trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Dozens of rescuers race against time to find more survivors in the rubble of twisted tin roofs and combustible heaps of rubbish and debris.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The \u200ddeath toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippines has risen to four, an official said, as rescue efforts continue \u2060for dozens who remained missing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/9\/landfill-collapse-kills-one-and-leaves-dozens-missing-in-philippines\">Binaliw landfill<\/a> in \u200bthe central city of Cebu collapsed on \u200dThursday, with 110 workers on site at the time. Several structures and facilities inside the landfill were damaged during the \u200dcollapse.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/9\/landfill-collapse-kills-one-and-leaves-dozens-missing-in-philippines\">Landfill collapse kills one and leaves dozens missing in Philippines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/30\/a-filipino-tribe-fights-to-stay-as-a-smart-city-rises-on-a-former-us-base\">A Filipino tribe fights to stay as a \u2018Smart City\u2019 rises on a former US base<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/14\/philippines-says-fishermen-hurt-boat-damaged-in-china-coastguard-skirmish\">Philippines says fishermen hurt, boat damaged in China coastguard skirmish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/101-east\/2025\/12\/13\/inside-the-world-of-catholic-exorcisms-in-the-philippines\">Inside the world of Catholic exorcisms in the Philippines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Cebu City \u2060Mayor Nestor Archival said in a Facebook post on Saturday that the death toll had risen to four and 12 others had been sent to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 36 people were missing, based on a Friday tally. An update on the number of \u200cmissing was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4226090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4226090\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ap_69609fb5d27b6-1767940021.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C433&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"An aerial view after a huge mound of garbage collapsed at a waste segregation facility in Binaliw, Cebu city on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jacqueline Hernandez)\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4226090\">An aerial view after a huge mound of rubbish collapsed in Binaliw, Cebu [Jacqueline Hernandez\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Families of the missing workers remained hopeful \u200con Saturday that they would be \u2060found alive.<\/p>\n<p>Jerahmey Espinoza, whose husband was among the missing, went to the landfill in hopes of finding him. \u201cThey haven\u2019t seen \u200chim or located him ever since the disaster happened. We\u2019re still hopeful that he\u2019s alive,\u201d Espinoza said.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of rescuers, including police, firefighters and disaster-response personnel, have raced against time to find more survivors in dangerous conditions in the rubble of twisted tin roofs, iron bars and combustible heaps of rubbish and debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities 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, which is enroute with police escort,\u201d Cebu\u2019s Mayor Nestor Archival said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety of responders remains paramount due to hazards such as unstable debris and acetylene risks, prompting adjustments to the security perimeter and controlled access,\u201d Archival said.<\/p>\n<p>The four dead, including an engineer and a female office worker, were all employees of the landfill and waste management facility that has a staff of 110, according to the mayor and police.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the collapse of the mountain of rubbish remains unclear, but a survivor told The Associated Press news agency on Friday that it happened in an instant without any warning, despite fairly good weather at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of rescuers race against time to find more survivors in the rubble of twisted tin roofs and combustible heaps of rubbish and debris. The \u200ddeath toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippines has risen to four, an official said, as rescue efforts continue \u2060for dozens who remained missing. The Binaliw landfill in &#8230; <a title=\"Death toll in Philippines landfill collapse hits 4, dozens still trapped\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/death-toll-in-philippines-landfill-collapse-hits-4-dozens-still-trapped\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Death toll in Philippines landfill collapse hits 4, dozens still trapped\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}