CEBU CITY – Two three-year-old children died of suffocation after a fire destroyed a two-story house in Barangay Labangon around early Friday. SFO1 Rogelio Dabalos, in a radio interview, said the househelp was unconscious when fire fighters found her inside the comfort room. The boy died at the Cebu City Medical Center while his sister died at the Chong Hua Hospital. Firefighters managed to save the children’s room from the blaze but the victims were suffocated by the smoke, Dabalos said. The other details of the incident had yet to be released by the Cebu City Fire Department.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 04, 2016 00:54 UTC