Overview
- The blaze broke out Sunday evening at the Werdha/Panti Werdha Damai facility in Ranomuut, Paal Dua, Manado, with firefighters alerted around 8:31–8:36pm local time.
- Three city fire engines brought the fire under control in roughly an hour after arriving at the scene.
- Authorities confirmed three residents suffered burn injuries and 12 others were evacuated unharmed.
- The 16 deceased were transported to the North Sulawesi police’s Bhayangkara Hospital for formal identification.
- Police forensic teams have opened a crime-scene investigation and begun interviewing witnesses, and no cause has been announced; survivors were taken to Manado City Regional Hospital and Permata Bunda Hospital.