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Fire razes Zambo Norte town hall

|  October 21, 2014 - 2:16 pm

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 21 October) – A fire that broke out early Tuesday razed to the ground the two-story semi-concrete municipal hall building of Sirawai, Zamboanga del Norte, a military official disclosed.

The fire also razed to the ground a residential house owned by a retired policeman.

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Capt. Franco Suelto, information officer of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, disclosed the fire broke out around 12:45 a.m. at the Social Welfare Office at the building’s second floor and rapidly engulfed the edifice.

A policeman assigned in Sirawai town disclosed the other offices that were burned include the police station, Commission on Elections, Bureau of Internal, Revenue, and Municipal Engineer’s Office.[]

Suelto said also destroyed during the fire was one dump truck, a police vehicle, three motorcycles, a caliber .[]

30 machine gun, eight M-16 rifles, two M-203 grenade launchers, 10 rifle grenades, office equipment and assorted documents.

He said the residential house that was burned down belongs to Benjamin Caragan, a retired policeman.

Suelto added that no one was killed or injured during the fire, which believed to be caused by faulty electrical wiring.