Survivors: Kids were inside Angeles City site before collapse

Police in Angeles City cordoned off the area surrounding the nine-story building project that collapsed before dawn on Sunday, May 24, 2026. So far, four bodies had been recovered in the collapsed structure, and according to survivors, there were reportedly some children at the site before it collapsed. GRIC C. MONTEGRANDE

ANGELES CITY — At least two survivors of the collapsed nine-story building in Barangay Balibago said minors may have been inside the construction site before the structure gave way.

The accounts surfaced as rescuers continued searching for individuals feared trapped beneath the rubble of the unfinished mixed-use building along Teodoro Street.

Ernesto Toleroso, 60, a construction worker, said some of his co-workers had their families staying with them at the site.

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