5 killed in Bocaue fire; foul play eyed
By Carmela Reyes-Estrope
Five members of a family died in a fire that gutted a house in Barangay (village) Lolomboy here early Sunday, police said.
Five members of a family died in a fire that gutted a house in Barangay (village) Lolomboy here early Sunday, police said.
A cancer patient who started a fire in a Taiwan hospital — which killed 13 people and injured 60 others — because he was upset by his illness has been sentenced to death, a court said on Thursday.
The Bureau of Fire Protection was expected to file last Monday a complaint for arson against a 16-year-old boy who started a fire that gutted a house in Barangay (village) Saguin here on Saturday. Superintendent Emmanuel Arrozal, Pampanga fire marshal, said a closed circuit television (CCTV) footage showed the boy setting the house of Erlinda Sarmiento on fire by burning a sofa.
One was hurt after a fire broke out in a restaurant on Makati Avenue Monday afternoon.
Suspected New People’s Army rebels burned down heavy equipment owned by a quarry company in Rodriguez, Rizal, on Sunday afternoon, the regional spokesman of the military’s Southern Luzon Command, said on Monday.
About 45 houses burned down in a fire that razed a community of informal settlers on St. Joseph Merville Access Road in Kalayaan Village, Pasay City.
The fire which hit a 16-door apartment complex in Quezon City on Christmas Day and left seven people dead was most likely electrical in nature, authorities said Thursday.
A fire gutted five units of a residential building on Pureza Street, Sta. Mesa, Manila, Monday afternoon.
A four-hour fire destroyed more than 200 shanties in a crowded residential area next to the tracks of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) in Muntinlupa City Saturday evening.
ZAMBOANGA CITY—Police are trying to shorten the list of possible motives for the arson last Oct. 25 inside the state-run Mindanao State University (MSU) that killed two people and are inclined to conclude that persons irked at the operations of a videoke joint in the arson site are behind the attack. Senior Superintendent Romeo [...]
The October 25 case of arson and murder on the campus of the state-run Mindanao State University in Marawi City, in which two people were killed, could have been an offshoot of the locals’ dislike of videoke, the police said Monday.
Soldiers manning a checkpoint in North Cotabato shot dead a man, who later turned out to be a kidnapping and arson suspect whose capture carried a P1.2 million bounty.
A woman, protesting she had been spurned once too many by a disc jockey, burned down the Love Radio FM station here Thursday morning.
