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(Eagle News) — The fire that hit the NCCC mall on December 23 in Davao and resulted in the deaths of 38 people was due to a short circuit. This is according to Inter-agency Anti-Arson Task Force spokesperson Superintendent Jerry Candido, who received a report of the arson laboratory on the incident on Wednesday night. According to Candido, the faulty electrical wiring was in the “ceiling” located between the furniture and fabric sections.” He said these were […]
Authorities have already identified 36 of the reported 37 bodies recovered from the NCCC mall fire in Davao City. As of 2:40 a.m. Dec. 27, only one of the 37 bodies recovered over the weekend remains to be identified. Another missing person, the 38th, in the local government’s official list has yet to be found. In the official list, they named the 36 positively-identified victims as: 1. Sismar, Jeffrey 2. Bongcayao, Mary Louielyn 3. […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, December 25, vowed to conduct a thorough investigation into the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) shopping mall fire which killed at least 37 people in Davao City, even as he assured that there will be no cover-up in the probe. In a private meeting with the families of the victims at Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here, President Duterte said there will be an inter-agency body to investigate the […]
(Eagle News) — A militant labor group on Tuesday said the company that employed the 37 call center agents who died after being trapped in their burning office in Davao should be held accountable for their deaths. Alan Tanjusay, spokesperson of the Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, said if Research Now SSI, the Texas-based call center company, had complied with “the labor inspection standards on the fire exits, sprinkler system, ventilation, lighting, noise, […]
Firemen have found the bodies of “around” 36 people after a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in the southern Philippines, a fire official said Monday. The regional chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Wilberto Rico Neil Kwan Tiu, told weeping relatives of the missing that he personally counted “around 36” bodies in an office lobby at the burned down NCCC shopping mall in Davao. Mayor Sara Duterte said earlier that 38 people […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has released a list of missing persons who are feared to have perished in the Davao City mall fire Saturday, December 23. “Our thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of the 37 missing persons of the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) fire in Davao City (on Saturday, December 23),” a Palace statement said. The list of missing persons below was released “as per the City Government of Davao” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited the kin of the victims of a Davao mall fire that broke out on Saturday. The President reportedly stayed with the relatives who were anxiously waiting for any development. The President left around 4 a.m. on Sunday. More than 30 people are believed to ave died after a blaze hit the New City Commercial Corporation Mall Davao at the corner of Mac Arthur Highway and MAA road.
