Elderly couple die as fire hits Koronadal City

KORONADAL CITY - A public school teacher and her husband were charred to death in a fire that hit the family home in Barangay Namnama here Saturday.Marlon Aquino, the victims' nephew, identified the couple as Concepcion, 59 and Romeo Mateo, 57, both of Barangay Namnama.Aquino told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida that the fire was already huge and it was impossible for anybody to save the couple. The fire started at about 10 p.m.Even neighbors who responded to the fire were helpless, Aquino said.The one-story concrete house had all its windows covered by iron grill. Explosions were heard and believed to have been caused by an LPG tank and a motorbike.Arson probers eye electrical short circuit as the cause of conflagration.