Nursing student dies in Zamboanga City fire

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ZAMBOANGA CITY – A nursing student died when fire broke out in a house along E. Perez Drive in Barangay Guiwan here Monday morning.

Fire Superintendent Christopher Morales identified the fatality as Marc Nathaniel Nogas Aguinid, 20, a second year nursing student of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University and a native of Isabela City, Basilan.

Morales said the fire broke out in the house where Aguinid resides.

Morales added that the fire was reported to them at around 8:15 a.m. Responding firefighters extinguished the blaze  by 9:20 a.m.

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