By Chito O. Aragon
Inquirer Visayas
Three people, including a lawyer and his wife, died in a fire that engulfed their house in Barangay (village) Guadalupe here early Thursday, authorities said.
Senior Police Officer 2 Jay Yballe, chief investigator of the Cebu City police homicide section, said Manuel Pastrana, 79, his wife Norma, 74, and a housemaid named Joy, perished in the fire that broke out at about 1 a.m. in the house in Calderon compound, Sitio (sub-village) Banawa.
Arson investigator Antonio Gonzales said the burned remains of the three were found a few meters from each other in the living room. He said the three were trapped when fire from the ceiling spread.
Witnesses told the authorities that the victims tried but failed to flee the house made of light and concrete materials because the blaze spread quickly.
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