Angeles, May 25: Rescuers pulled out three people on Monday from an immense pile of rubble that was all that remained of a nine-storey hotel, which collapsed while under construction in a northern Philippine city, bringing the death toll to four with 17 others still missing, officials said.
Two of the men were dead, while emergency personnel struggled in the early morning hours to revive one in an ambulance near the pile of concrete slabs, twisted iron bars and aluminium scaffoldings that was all that remained of the building in Angeles City of Pampanga Province. They eventually gave up and drove away.
One of the three people pulled out from the rubble on Monday was unidentified and was not on the list of the 17 missing, who were mostly construction workers.
The fourth dead victim was a Malaysian tourist trapped in a budget inn that was hit by the debris from the collapsed building. (AP)
