{"id":15561,"date":"2017-12-25T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T11:28:37","slug":"37-feared-dead-in-philippine-mall-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/37-feared-dead-in-philippine-mall-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"37 feared dead in Philippine mall blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Davao,<br \/>\nAt least 37 persons, including call centre staff from an American firm, are believed to have perished in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said today.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte, himself a Davao native, visited distraught relatives outside the burning building overnight but told them there was \u201czero\u201d chance their loved ones had survived.<\/p>\n<p>Firemen found one body as the blaze was finally extinguished today, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, the President\u2019s daughter, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Firemen have concluded that all those trapped in the building are dead, she said, adding: \u201cThey assessed that no one would survive in that heat and with that thick, black smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadly fire adds fresh misery for the mainly Catholic Philippines at Christmas as the death toll from a tropical storm that hit the south of the country Friday crossed 200 and with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides. The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall Saturday morning, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky over Davao. With low wages but strong English language skills, the Philippines is a popular destination for international companies to set up customer call centres.<\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s top floor housed a 24-hour call centre for the US-based market research company SSI.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davao, At least 37 persons, including call centre staff from an American firm, are believed to have perished in a fire that tore through a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said today. President Rodrigo Duterte, himself a Davao native, visited distraught relatives outside the burning building overnight but told [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15564,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15561\/revisions\/15564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}