4 killed in Mindanao’s New Year revelry accidents

At least four people, including a five-year-old boy, were killed in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao during the New Year revelry, initial reports on two separate accidents said Friday. Jocelyn Guibone and her son, Joros, were burnt to death in Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental province after fire razed their family-owned pyrotechnics store, a Bombo Radyo report said. Jocelyn was able to initially escape the inferno, but rushed back into the flames to save her son, who was sleeping in the store when the incident happened, according to Inspector Harvey Sanchez of the Gingoog City police. Sanchez said the fire started when a still-unidentified man tested a firecracker inside the store. Two other people were also killed in Zamboanga City after a hanging bridge collapsed in the area 15 minutes into the New Year, a separate radio report said. [See: Last fireworks for two as bridge collapses in Zambo] - Andreo C. Calonzo, GMANews.TV