Five-year-old twin sisters were trapped and died in their room when a fire hit their house on Yangco Street in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila on Wednesday afternoon, May 15.
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said that the fire started on the second floor of the victims' house at around 2:21 p.m.
According to reports, the children's nanny was the only one with them at home since the mother of the victims was at work.
The children's nanny went down for a moment, and that was when the fire suddenly broke out on the second floor, where the children got trapped.
The children's nanny was not able to save the twins as the fire quickly consumed the second floor which was made of wood.
The BFP raised the first alarm at 2:21 p.m. and immediately put it under control at 2:43 p.m.
Firefighters extinguished it at 3:09 p.m.
Arson investigators are still determining the cause of the fire.