The privately-owned Binaliw landfill collapsed on Thursday while 110 workers were on site, officials said.
In a Facebook post on Saturday morning local time, Archival said: “Authorities confirmed the presence of detected signs of life in specific areas, requiring continued careful excavation and the deployment of a more advanced 50-ton crane.”
Conditions for rescue workers at the site are difficult, with the wreckage still unstable.
Relatives of those missing have been waiting anxiously for any news of their whereabouts. More than 30 people, all workers at the landfill, are thought to be missing.
“We are just hoping that we can get someone alive… We are racing against time, that’s why our deployment is 24/7,” Cebu City councillor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the city’s disaster council, told AFP news agency.
