Manila Fire Factory:More Than 100 Injured In Fire At Huge Factory In Philippines

MANILA:- Philippines A Philippine governor says more than 100 workers, including three Japanese, have been injured and at least three are missing in a fire that hit a huge factory south of Manila and sent thousands of employees scampering to safety. Governor Jesus Crispin Remulla said Thursday the fire at the House Technology Industries is under control but has not been fully extinguished nearly 18 hours after it started in General Trias town in Cavite province.

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Dozens were injured in a fire that hit the House Technology Industries building at the Cavite Export Processing Zone south of Metro Manila evening of February 1. About 100 HTI workers are being treated in various hospitals in the cities and towns around Rosario, where the industrial zone is located. The HTI facility, where housing materials for export to Japan are manufactured, occupies 6 hectares in the Cavite EPZA. Here's a running list of victims treated in the hospitals.

Remulla says about 10 of the injured are in critical condition, adding some employees jumped from windows to escape the fire at the three-story building where pre-fabricated house parts are manufactured for export to Japan. He says about a third of 15,000 employees were on duty when the fire struck