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The Resorts World Manila attack was an attack that took place at the Resorts World Manila (now Newport World Resorts) entertainment complex in Newport City, Pasay, Philippines. 38 were killed and 70 were injured when a gunman caused a stampede after he set fire to casino tables and slot machine chairs around midnight on June 2, 2017. [ 3][ 4 ...
Type. Fire. Deaths. 74 [a] The Manor Hotel fire was a fire at the Manor Hotel in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 18, 2001. With a death toll of 74, it is considered to be the second worst structural fire in Philippine history, tied with the 2015 Kentex slipper factory fire and only behind the Ozone Disco fire in 1996. [b] [5]
In May, a fire completely destroyed the National Library, with the loss of 100,000 volumes as well as 40,000 manuscripts. September 7 – Gulf Hotel fire in Houston, Texas, killed 55. 1944. May 12 – Union Hotel fire in Oroville, California, killed 15. July 6 – Hartford Circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, killed 168.
A fire at a hotel killed three people on Sunday and injured nearly two dozen, police and rescue officials said, with two people listed as missing. Hotel fire kills at least 3 in Manila Skip to ...
Unknown, believed to be electrical fire. Deaths. 162. Non-fatal injuries. 95. The Ozone Disco fire in Quezon City, Philippines, broke out on March 18, 1996, leaving at least 162 people dead. It is officially acknowledged as the worst fire in Philippine history, [ 1][ 2] and among the 10 worst nightclub fires in the world. [ 3][ 4]
A massive fire tore through Manila’s historic post office building overnight, slightly injuring seven people and razing the nearly 100-year-old landmark in the Philippine capital, police and ...
At least 11 people died on Friday in a fire in a five-storey residential and commercial building in the Chinatown precinct of the Philippine capital, a community official said. The blaze in Manila ...
The Manila hostage crisis, officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident ( Tagalog: Pagbibihag ng bus sa Maynila ), [ 3] took place when a disgruntled former Philippine National Police officer named Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tourist bus in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines, on August 23, 2010. The bus carried 25 people: 20 tourists ...