Tag: fire tragedy

URGENT: More than 30 bodies found in burnt Philippine mall, says regional fire chief

  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 […]

Terror attacks and fire tragedy: Britain’s time of tumult

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain has endured a tumultuous period in recent months including four terror attacks, a catastrophic fire and a dramatic election that left Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government badly weakened. Here are some of the key dates so far: – March 22: Khalid Masood drives a rented car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London and stabs to death an unarmed police officer guarding the British parliament. Five people are […]