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Published January 30, 2021, 11:52 AM
TACLOBAN CITY – Two elderly siblings perished in a fire that gutted their house on Thursday night, January 28, in Sitio Utap, Barangay Matlang in Isabel, Leyte.
Two elderly siblings perished in a fire that gutted their house on Thursday night, January 28, in Sitio Utap, Barangay Matlang in Isabel, Leyte. (Photo by Isabel Police / MANILA BULLETIN)
Isabel Fire Marshall SFO4 Cosmelito Tante, on Saturday, January 30, identified the fatalities as Estrelita Centino, 88, widow, and her sister Conegunda Wenceslao, 78, widow.
Case investigator FO3 Kenneth Ian Villaflor disclosed that the local fire bureau was still conducting a thorough investigation on the cause of the fire that reduced the house of the elderly sisters into rubble.