BAGUIO CITY – Two young children died while an adult was injured during a structural fire in a shanty at the Patmon’s Village, Purok 28, San Carlos heights, Irisan, here, Saturday afternoon.
Based on a report from the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC), the two fatalities are said to be aged six and seven, both males and residents of the aforesaid place.
Further, the CDRRMC also confirmed that a 26-year old male was also injured during the said fire incident.
The fire was declared under control at around 20 minutes later based on the assessment of the firefighters that responded to the scene.
Arson investigators are still evaluating and ascertaining the cause of the fire that razed the said shanty where the fatalities and the injured individual were situated at the time of the said incident. By Dexter A. See