{"id":141708,"date":"2017-12-26T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141708"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:21:15","slug":"duterte-tells-kin-of-davao-mall-fire-victims-truth-will-come-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/26\/duterte-tells-kin-of-davao-mall-fire-victims-truth-will-come-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte tells kin of Davao mall fire victims: Truth will come out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141733\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141733\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18.jpg\" alt=\"President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares words of consolation to the families of the victims who died in the recent fire incident at the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) Mall Davao during his visit at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) on December 25, 2017. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTOPresident Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares words of consolation to the families of the victims who died in the recent fire incident at the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) Mall Davao during his visit at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) on December 25, 2017.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171225-ph-MORANDANTE18-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ventolin online <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/ventolin.html\">https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/ventolin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO&#8221; width=&#8221;1350&#8243; height=&#8221;900&#8243; \/><\/a> President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares words of consolation to the families of the victims who died in the recent fire incident at the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) Mall Davao during his visit at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) on December 25, 2017. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTOPresident Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares words of consolation to the families of the victims who died in the recent fire incident at the New City Commercial Center (NCCC) Mall Davao during his visit at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) on December 25, 2017. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday vowed that the truth will come out regarding the deaths of 37 people in a shopping mall fire in Davao City two days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte, who was a former mayor of the city, relayed the news on the recovery of the 36 fatalities to the bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said most bodies are identified as call center agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what is there to talk about the\u00a0<em>sunog\u00a0[fire]<\/em>? What I assured them is that the truth will &#8212; Let the truth come out,\u201d Duterte told reporters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zydena online <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/zydena.html\">https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/zydena.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the one who broke the news to them. <em>Kasi<\/em> [Because] Inday begged off. Sabi niya [She told me], \u2018<em>Hindi ko kaya<\/em> [I can\u2019t do it], Pa [father].<em>\u2019 Eh sanay naman ako sa ganito<\/em> [And I am used to these kinds of situations],\u201d the president said, pertaining to his daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte also assured that the local government would extend aid to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s what they are after, too. And maybe the compensation and the expenses are answered. But me, I already committed that government is willing to chip in,\u201d Duterte said in mix Filipino and English.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested that the bodies be cremated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Monday instructed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct an investigation on the fatal fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss of lives and the resulting damage caused underscore the need to determine if someone is at fault and should be held criminally liable,\u201d Aguirre said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy punishing those responsible, we can set an example to others so that, hopefully, there will be no repetition of these tragedies,\u201d the secretary added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tamiflu online <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/tamiflu.html\">https:\/\/doctorgreenwald.com\/Layouts\/OutboundEmails\/html\/tamiflu.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the blaze at the New City Commercial Center mall started at about past 9 in the morning of December 23 at the furniture area on the third floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday vowed that the truth will come out regarding the deaths of 37 people in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[8790,2445,18499,13135,40370],"class_list":["post-141708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-christmas","tag-davao-city","tag-davao-city-mayor-sara-duterte-carpio","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-shopping-mall-fire","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281216,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141708\/revisions\/281216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}