2 killed in Mandaue City fire | Inquirer News

2 killed in Mandaue City fire

By: - Correspondent / @mendozanorms
/ 01:31 PM September 01, 2016

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Two persons were killed in a fire that hit SB Cabahug Street in Barangay (village) Ibabao-Estancia, Mandaue City at 5 a.m. Thursday.

Two bodies were found by fire investigators who were waiting for the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) personnel to examine the remains.

Seven two-storey houses owned by a former Barangay Ibabao-Estancia chairman and by the owner of St. Jude Memorial Homes were destroyed by the fire.

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A wake in one chapel had to be transferred to another chapel in front of the fire site. Some of the houses were ancestral homes built in the 1950s.

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A display center for coffins was also damaged. RAM/rga

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