Philippines Ends Rescue for 16 Missing After 9-Storey Collapse Kills 4

10 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · May 26

Philippine emergency officials ended a two-day rescue operation late Monday for 16 people still missing after a nine-storey condominium project collapsed in Angeles and shifted to recovering remains.
Four bodies have been pulled from the rubble, including a Malaysian man and two construction workers, after life-locator equipment found no further signs of life beneath the debris.
The missing count fell from 17 to 16 after one person told authorities he had not been at the site when the building gave way onto a nearby hotel early Sunday.
About 70 people worked at the site, but most had gone home for the weekend; families who had briefly clung to thermal-sensor and heartbeat detections were told those signals likely came from animals.
The collapse left relatives waiting beside the wreckage as bulldozers began clearing debris, underscoring the disaster's toll on construction workers' families in Angeles north of Manila.

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