“First Lt. Dinar Alosada—a female officer who was among those critically injured in the May 7 armory fire at Fort Bonifacio—died at around 3:30pm on Wednesday, May 21, at the East Avenue Medical Center’s burn unit,” reports Jaime Laude in The Philippine Star.
Two other Army men, Cpl. Bernabe Mota and M/Sgt. Ferdinand Rafal, have also died while undergoing hospital treatment for injuries suffered from the blaze and the series of explosions that followed, which destroyed the headquarters of the Philippine Army’s Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Battalion at the Army Support Command (Ascom) compound.
The report noted: “The Army’s Board of Inquiry, chaired by Ascom chief Maj. Gen. Gamaliel Cruz, said it found that the fire was caused by a spark from an overloaded electrical line in the EOD battalion’s training room.”
The board also noted that there was no safety officer at the time of the fire, which violates the standard operating procedure at the facility.
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