A nine-storey building under construction near Manila collapsed early Sunday, with nineteen people feared trapped in the debris. The incident occurred in Angeles City, north of the Philippine capital.

Nineteen people are feared trapped after a building under construction near Manila collapsed early on Sunday, a local government official said. Officials in Angeles City, around 80km (50 miles) north of the Philippine capital, said they had received a report at about 3am that an unfinished nine-storey concrete building had given way. City information officer Jay Pelayo said that the building’s walls and scaffolding had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris. While there were no...