Overview
- The roughly 20‑storey garbage mound at the privately run Binaliw site gave way after prolonged rain, burying around 50 workers and crushing a recycling facility and nearby homes.
- Mayor Nestor Archival reports eight confirmed fatalities with about 28 people still unaccounted for.
- Hundreds of responders are using excavators, cranes, ambulances and fire trucks to dig through unstable waste.
- Authorities say they are still in rescue mode, though a fire official told AFP that survival is unlikely several days after the slide.
- Residents had long complained about the dump’s conditions, and a city councilor has cited poor management as probes into the collapse move forward.