{"id":11094,"date":"2026-01-10T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11094"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:48:40","slug":"rescuers-racing-to-find-dozens-still-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11094","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers racing to find dozens still missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 30 people are thought to be missing following the landslide in Cebu<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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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<\/div>\n

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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<\/div>\n

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Relatives of the missing are waiting anxiously for any news of their loved ones<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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