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Article: Nighttime fire in Philippines slum kills 16, destroys 60-plus homes.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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MANILA, Philippines | A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents, including women and children.
The fire started after midnight and rapidly spread, gutting the wooden two-story apartment building and more than 60 nearby shanties in Bacolod city, a fire official said. Bacolod is on Negros island, an impoverished, sugar-producing region about 340 miles south of Manila.
Several people leapt from windows at the height of the fire, but others failed to wake up in time to save themselves.
Relatives have identified all the dead, who were placed in black bags ...