One dead, 38 missing after Philippine dump site collapse

Manila: Rescue workers searched Friday for dozens of people feared buried under a mountain of garbage that collapsed at a landfill in the central Phil...

Manila: Rescue workers searched Friday for dozens of people feared buried under a mountain of garbage that collapsed at a landfill in the central Philippines, killing at least one.

Dozens of sanitation workers were buried when the towering pile of refuse toppled onto them on Thursday at Binaliw Landfill, a privately operated facility in Cebu City.

"It must be four storeys high," Jason Morata, a city assistant public information officer, said of the trash mountain.

At least 12 employees were pulled alive from the garbage and hospitalised, according to a statement on the official Facebook page of city mayor Nestor Archival.

Rescue workers were "fully engaged in search and retrieval efforts to locate the remaining missing persons", he said.