On November 17, 1981, at around 3 am, an accident occurred at the site where the Manila Film Center was being built. The scaffoldings collapsed, sending at least 169 construction workers down to their tragic demise. They got buried under quick-drying wet cement.

Certainly, that padugo did not, in any way, do well for the center and to the families left behind by the unfortunate workers.

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