Ralph Canoy, a police officer, said the fire was still going before dawn this morning.
A firefighter stands in front of the burning shopping mall in Davao City on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)
Thirty-seven people were believed killed in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, the local vice mayor said on Sunday. A Bureau of Fire Protection commander at the scene said the chances of the 37 surviving were “zero”, Paolo Duterte, the vice mayor, wrote in a Facebook post. The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall on Saturday morning and people were trapped inside, including in a call centre, Ralph Canoy, a police officer in the district said. Canoy said the fire was still going before dawn this morning. “It started on the third floor, which houses products like fabrics, wooden furniture and plastic ware, so it quickly spread and it’s taking a long time to put out,” he said.
( Source : AFP )
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