Ammon News - Officials said up to 70 people were employed at the construction site, though most had gone home for the weekend.
The death toll rose to four on Monday after the collapse of a hotel under construction near the Philippine capital, with more than a dozen people still believed missing, authorities said.

Two workers pinned beneath the wreckage were found alive after the nine-storey structure gave way on Sunday, hitting a nearby hotel and killing a Malaysian guest.

But two workers trapped at the site in Angeles, north of the capital Manila, died despite rescue efforts.

"The first of the two was pulled out alive, but unfortunately, his body gave out and he did not survive. Doctors could not resuscitate him," regional fire bureau spokeswoman Maria Leah Sajili told the AFP news agency.

"The other one suffered a cardiac arrest around 3:00 am. Doctors could not attend to him as he was still pinned down," she added.

Crews pulled another corpse from the rubble on Monday, but it was not immediately clear if the unidentified body belonged to a person listed among the missing, rescuers said in an updated toll.

Due to the uncertainty, authorities said approximately 17 other people were still considered missing, mostly construction workers who were sleeping at the building site when disaster struck.