Authorities will investigate a shopping mall fire in Davao City that killed dozens of people, most of them call center staff from an American firm, to determine responsibility for “appropriate legal action” and compliance with occupational and health standards and fire safety regulations.

“Some people must be held responsible for the senseless loss of lives,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd said in a statement on Monday.

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