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RETRIEVED Rescue teams retrieve the body of a man on Thursday morning after more than 11 hours of careful extrication from unstable debris at the collapsed nine-story building in Barangay Balibago, Angeles City. The still unidentified victim was the fifth fatality recovered at the site. —PHOTO COURTESY OF BUREAU OF FIRE PROTECTION
ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, Philippines — Inside the unstable debris field of the collapsed nine-story building at Barangay Balibago here, the recovery of the fifth fatality on Thursday highlighted the difficult and high-risk conditions responders continue to face at ground zero of the tragedy.
The body was retrieved at 7:57 a.m. after more than 11 hours of careful extrication, following its discovery at 6:18 p.m. on Wednesday.
From the moment the body was located beneath layers of collapsed concrete and steel, responders were forced to work within tight, unstable spaces where even minor shifts in debris could trigger further collapse.
