MANILA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Three children died after being trapped inside their house that caught fire in the Philippine capital on Tuesday, the Bureau of Fire Protection said.
The bureau said the siblings, aged 10, seven, and five, were asleep in a room when the fire broke out on Tuesday morning in Quezon City and quickly spread through the residential community.
The children's parents were not at home when the fire broke out. They were left under the care of their grandmother, who managed to escape without the children.
The fire quickly spread and engulfed over 10 houses in the densely populated community. It took firefighters nearly three hours to extinguish the fire.
Arson investigators are looking into the cause of the blaze. ■
