CEBU CITY – Two three-year-old children died of suffocation after a fire destroyed a two-story house in Barangay Labangon around early Friday.
Elaine Myat and her twin brother were sleeping inside their bedroom with a female househelp when the fire broke out at 2:55 a.m. in a two-story house in Acacia Place Subdivision.
SFO1 Rogelio Dabalos, in a radio interview, said the househelp was unconscious when fire fighters found her inside the comfort room.
The two children, on the other hand, were lying in the bedroom.
They brought the children to the hospital. The boy died at the Cebu City Medical Center while his sister died at the Chong Hua Hospital. The househelp survived.
The children’s mother managed to jump off the terrace outside the master’s bedroom as narrated by neighbors, Dabalos said.
Based on the investigation, Dabalos said the fire may have been caused by an air conditioning unit inside the room that exploded due to nonstop use.
The fire was put under control at 4:04 a.m.
Firefighters managed to save the children’s room from the blaze but the victims were suffocated by the smoke, Dabalos said.
The other details of the incident had yet to be released by the Cebu City Fire Department. CDG/rga
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