
Originally published bySouth China Morning Post
Nineteen people are feared trapped after a building under construction near Manila collapsed early on Sunday, a local government official said.
Officials in Angeles City, around 80km (50 miles) north of the Philippine capital, said they had received a report at about 3am that an unfinished nine-storey concrete building had given way.
City information officer Jay Pelayo said that the building’s walls and scaffolding had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.
While there were no...
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