IMUS CITY, Cavite – Another employee had reportedly died 21 days after a najor fire razed down the House Technology Industries (HTI) Pte. Ltd. factory inside the Cavite Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) compound in Barangay Bacao II, General Trias City.
On his Facebook account, Cavite Governor Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla disclosed that Jojo Arcinue of HTI succumbed at a hospital at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Remulla earlier identified the three fatalities as Alex Lerog 33, a native of Sta. Monica, Surigao del Norte, and resident of Rosario, Cavite; Jerome de Guia Sismaet, 37,of Maragondon, Cavite, and Richard Bombita Sargento, 33.
One hundred and twenty four workers and two Japanese firm officers were reportedly brought to hospitals in Gen. Trias when the fire broke out in the factory on the night of February 1 which lasted for 46 hours. (Anthony Giron)
