ILIGAN CITY – Two children aged three and four locked inside the house by their parents died in a Christmas Day fire in Tubod town, Lanao del Norte, police said.
Major Salman Saad, spokesperson of the Lanao del Norte police office, said the children’s parents locked them up in the house, in the company of a leashed dog, in hinterland Tanguegueron village as they left for the farm at around 8 a.m. last Friday, Dec. 25.
The fire broke out at around 11:30 a.m., Saad said, citing the accounts of several villagers who rushed to help quell it.
However, the fire quickly gobbled up the house made of light materials.
Saad said the couple Junie Palongpalong and Judelyn Gargoles told po…
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