Fifteen dead in fire at house turned clothes factory


MANILA (dpa): Fifteen people were killed in a fire that gutted a two-storey house turned into a clothes factory in the Philippines, officials said Thursday (Aug 31).

Three people escaped the fire by climbing out of a window on the second floor of the house in Quezon City in metropolitan Manila, said Nahum Tarroza, a regional director at the Bureau of Fire Protection.

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