HOMELESS Some residents of Sitio Asinan in Barangay Kasanyangan, Zamboanga City, on Sunday morning sift through the debris of their homes razed by fire on Saturday night. —PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY MHOY BUAH ZAMBOANGA CITY—One person died, two others were injured and at least 380 families, or roughly 1,485 individuals, were displaced in a fire that razed to the ground 240 houses in the village of Kasanyangan of this city at 8:16 p.m. on Saturday, fire officials said. Benahar Ismael Anding, 31, a resident of the subvillage of Asinan in Kasanyangan, was trying to help put out the fire by throwing pails of water on the roofs of nearby houses, when he accidentally stepped on a live wire.

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