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(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 […]
by Ferdinand Cabrera Agence France-Presse DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities ordered a criminal investigation Monday into a shopping mall fire that authorities said likely killed 37 people, including call centre staff from an American firm. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre announced the inquiry as firemen prepared to enter what remained of the NCCC mall in the southern city of Davao where they hope to retrieve those who perished in Saturday’s blaze. The fire compounded the […]
