MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll in a fire that swept through a budget hotel in the northern Philippines has risen to 16 after one of the survivors died in a hospital.
The fire razed the Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Cagayan province's capital, Tuguegarao city, early Sunday, burning to death 15 people. Nine of the victims were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam.
Cagayan police chief Mao Aplasca said Monday that another male nursing student died in a hospital, bringing the death toll to 16. Fire investigator Daniel Abana said the student, an asthmatic who suffered minor burns, died late Sunday due to suffocation.
Some firefighters were moved to tears after finding the badly burned bodies in the upper floors of the five-story hotel.
By: Associated Press (ny times)
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