Garbage Avalanche at Cebu Landfill Traps Workers (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: An avalanche of garbage buried workers at a landfill in the Philippines and now rescuers are racing against time to save them. At least one person is known to have been killed, while 38 remain missing, according to officials. Police and officials also said that 13 people have been retrieved alive by rescuers working overnight after the huge amount of garbage collapsed on them in the village of Biniliu in Cebu City. It is currently unclear if neighbouring residents or others are amongst the victims of the avalanche, but one of those rescued, a female landfill worker, died while being brought to a hospital, the regional police director said. He added that one of the buildings buried by the garbage was a warehouse where workers separated recyclable waste from trash. According to the mayor of Cebu City, authorities and officials at the waste management facility, which has 110 employees, plan to hold an emergency meeting on Friday. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.