URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan – Six persons were killed in a fire in Zone 2, Barangay Nancayasan, this city, before dawn on Monday, April 20.
The Bureau of Fire Protection-Urdaneta said the victims were three males and three females, including two 11-year-old girls.
Two houses were destroyed – one owned by a woman living abroad and the other by a 63-year-old man.
The blaze started at 2 a.m. in the kitchen of one of the houses. The blaze rapidly spread and trapped the victims whose bodies were recovered in mopping-up operations.
Fire out was declared at 4:49 a.m.
Arson investigators have yet to determine the cause of the blaze and damage to property.