Tag: Davao mall fire
More than 30 dead in Davao mall fire; criminal probe on
by Ferdinandh Cabrera Agence France Presse Firemen Monday found the bodies of “around” 36 people after a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in Davao, a fire official said as the government launched a criminal investigation. The discovery raised to 37 the confirmed death toll from the NCCC shopping mall fire in the city of Davao on Mindanao island. The Davao region chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection, Wilberto Rico Neil Kwan Tiu, […]
37 feared dead in Davao mall blaze: Vice Mayor Duterte
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse Thirty-seven people were believed killed in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in Davao, local authorities said on Sunday. A Bureau of Fire Protection commander at the scene said the chances of the 37 surviving were “zero,” Paolo Duterte, Davao’s vice mayor, who is also the president’s son, wrote in a Facebook post. The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall on Saturday morning and people were trapped […]
