2 killed, 100 families homeless in Manila fire

(Updated 6:11 a.m.) Around two people wer killed while 100 families lost their homes after a fire razed a residential area in Manila's Malate district on Christmas Eve. The fatalities were a 95-year-old woman and her son, according to a report by radio dzBB's Henry Herdillo, with some 50 houses destroyed in the fire along Arellano Street Investigators are still determining the cause of the fire and the amount of damage it caused. According to investigators, the fire started before dawn Tuesday and reached the fifth alarm shortly before 3 a.m. Firefighters were quickly got control of the fire by 3:10 a.m. — DVM, GMA News