MANILA:- Philippines A Philippine governor
says more than 100 workers, including three Japanese, have been injured and at
least three are missing in a fire that hit a huge factory south of Manila and
sent thousands of employees scampering to safety. Governor Jesus Crispin Remulla said Thursday
the fire at the House Technology Industries is under control but has not been
fully extinguished nearly 18 hours after it started in General Trias town in
Cavite province.
A fire hits the facility of the biggest
investor in the Cavite export processing zone south of Metro Manila just
as workers have changed shifts Wednesday evening. Government investigators file criminal
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communist New People's Army ends its ceasefire with the Duterte
government, and kills a young soldier in an attack hours later. The warehouse
of a popular online shop is raided, yielding smuggled gadgets.
Overseas, Iran confirms it fired a test
missile, but insists it does not breach the deal it made with big countries.
The United Nations calls for the lifting of America's ban on immigrants from
7 Muslim-majority countries. Members of the British parliament has approved the
bill that gives the Prime Minister power to start Britain's pullout of the
European Union.
Dozens were injured in a fire that hit
the House Technology Industries building at the Cavite Export Processing
Zone south of Metro Manila evening of February 1. About 100 HTI workers are
being treated in various hospitals in the cities and towns around Rosario,
where the industrial zone is located. The HTI facility, where housing materials
for export to Japan are manufactured, occupies 6 hectares in the Cavite EPZA.
Here's a running list of victims treated in the hospitals.
Remulla says about 10 of the injured are in
critical condition, adding some employees jumped from windows to escape the
fire at the three-story building where pre-fabricated house parts are
manufactured for export to Japan. He says about a third of 15,000 employees
were on duty when the fire struck
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