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ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, Philippines — Buried beneath tons of concrete and twisted steel, construction worker Bryan Sytangco fought to stay alive as a nine-story building under construction in Barangay Balibago here collapsed early Sunday, killing at least four people and more than a dozen more under the rubble.
Sytangco, 46, recalled waking up around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday to the sound of what seemed like rocks crashing onto the workers’ barracks moments before the structure gave way.
“I thought I was going to die there,” Sytangco said in Filipino as he recounted his ordeal.
“I was checking on all my coworkers, shouting to ask if they were okay because I really wanted to help them,” he told the Inquirer, fighting back tears.
