Friday fire: 8 warehouse workers in Pasay die in blaze

Warning: This is even more gruesome than it seems.

“At around 1am on Friday, May 30, fire erupted at a warehouse along Samonte Street in Barangay 47, owned by a certain Juanito Go, trapping eight of his female employees who were believed to have been locked up inside their room,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.

The report cited the statement of Barangay 47 councilman Eddie Alas, who revealed that they had received complaints that Go was not allowing his employees to go out.

Indeed, the report said that “when the firemen managed to get inside the warehouse, they discovered the victims’ bodies piled on top of each other behind the door.”

Some of the other warehouse employees managed to get out of the burning structure. One of the fire survivors, who was identified as Nikki Torres, confirmed that Go “always locks them up inside their room.”

According to Chief Inspector Doglas Guiab, Pasay City fire marshal, “Go will be charged if it is proven that he locked his employees inside their room.”

Screengrab of photo by dzMM correspondent Dexter Ganibe, as shared to the public via his Twitter page




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