Nasunog ang Russian Embassy sa upscale Dasmariñas Village sa Makati City kagabi. Tinatayang nasa Php 100M ang pinsalang isinanhi ng sunog. Walang naiulat na nasawi.
Kasalukuyang nagsasagawa ng imbestigasyon, ayon sa Russian Foreign Ministry hinggil sa sanhi ng sunog.
“On the evening of February 4, a severe fire broke out in the building of the Russian Embassy in Manila. There are no victims or injured. Employees and members of their families who were in the embassy were evacuated,” ayon sa ipinalabas na statement released matapos ang insidente.
Ayon sa report, nagsimula ang apoy sa ikalawang palapag ng embassy bandang 8:25 ng gabi at umabot sa pangalawang alarma.
Idineklara itong under control bandang ng 11:38 ng gabi, ayon sa mga ulat mula sa Bureau of Fire Protection.
Gary P Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.