A fire that engulfed the famous Villagio Mall in Doha, Qatar killed 19 people including 3 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). The 3 Filipina victims were; Julie Ann Soco, 25, Marj Yecyec and Maribel Orosco-Aban, all were reportedly working as teachers in the Gympanzee Nursery School inside the Villagio Mall. The fatalities were found inside the mall when the firefighters finally extinguished the blaze, they were huddled together with their pupils....10 kids also died in that blaze....they all suffocated to death.
The mall was reportedly a fire trap as it had no water sprinkling system to help put out the fire and it also lacked fire escapes. The dead were all trapped inside the facility and they all died a horrible death. Total death toll is at 19 people and as I've mentioned earlier 10 were kids. The Villagio Mall employs over 400 Filipino workers so it's a very large mall, so what the hell is wrong with the authorities in Qatar that they let a shopping center this big to have no fire escapes and water sprinkling systems?
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) vowed to help the Pinay victims in bringing their bodies back home here in the Philippines but regretfully said that the 3 unfortunates will not receive any benefits since they were undocumented or were working there without going through the usual government process. You see, the 3 victims were working there with tourist visas, therefore no OWWA benefits will be received by their families here. Too bad but these Pinays still deserve a lot of help from our government despite being undocumented workers. They were only working in a strange and far away land to help their families back home....
The mall was reportedly a fire trap as it had no water sprinkling system to help put out the fire and it also lacked fire escapes. The dead were all trapped inside the facility and they all died a horrible death. Total death toll is at 19 people and as I've mentioned earlier 10 were kids. The Villagio Mall employs over 400 Filipino workers so it's a very large mall, so what the hell is wrong with the authorities in Qatar that they let a shopping center this big to have no fire escapes and water sprinkling systems?
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) vowed to help the Pinay victims in bringing their bodies back home here in the Philippines but regretfully said that the 3 unfortunates will not receive any benefits since they were undocumented or were working there without going through the usual government process. You see, the 3 victims were working there with tourist visas, therefore no OWWA benefits will be received by their families here. Too bad but these Pinays still deserve a lot of help from our government despite being undocumented workers. They were only working in a strange and far away land to help their families back home....
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