MANILA (XINHUA) – A 10-year-old boy died in a fire that gutted three houses in the Philippine capital yesterday morning, the Bureau of Fire Protection said.
The bureau said the fire broke out in a residential area in Paco district in Manila City at around 10.30am local time and quickly spread to the neighbourhood.
Firefighters later found the boy’s body on the second floor.
An initial investigation showed the victim’s family scampered out of the house, thinking the boy was in tow. The father tried to run back to the burning house upon realising the boy was missing, but extreme heat and smoke prevented him from entering the house.
It took firefighters a little over an hour to put out the fire. The bureau was still investigating the cause of the fire.
