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At Least 75 Christians Killed In Manila Hotel Fire

August 20, 2001

By: Stefan J. Bos

Eastern Europe Correspondent for ASSIST News Service

MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- (ANS) -- An early morning fire that swept through a suburban Manilla hotel Saturday has killed at least 75 people, mostly participants at a weekend conference organized by Christian evangelists, Vatican radio reported.

Television footage showed people clustering at windows of the five story Quezon City Manor House as firemen swarmed up ladders in a desperate attempt to rescue them and to search for the missing, including a pastor and his wife.

General Francisco Senot, director of the Bureau of Fire Protection, told the Reuters news agency that rescue work was made difficult...

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