TWO young children, aged three and one, perished in a two-hour fire that razed 353 houses in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, late Friday afternoon.

Senior Fire Officer 2 Climaco Salisid of the Lapu-Lapu City Fire Department said the charred remains of the siblings – Yoko Han, 3, and Kent Cyril,1 – were beyond recognition but their mother Jennifer Cañedo and daughter Princess, 9, were able to identify them 16 hours after the fire.

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