Youth among the dead at Kentex � Bulatlat

29.5.15

Youth among the dead at Kentex � Bulatlat: Like other relatives of workers in Kentex, Hije and Novora had rushed to Kentex after they saw the thick smoke and heard the fire sirens and it did not seem to be dying out easily. They live in a rented dormitory just near the factory.

Outside Kentex premises they waited and waited for the workers, most of whom never made it out alive. Meanwhie, they said those who waited outside and the survivors who managed to scamper out before the chemicals exploded circled the compound feeling frustrated and helpless.

“Kung di ganon ang factory mabubuhay sila. Kaso, ganon ang factory at nakulong sila. Balot ng bakal na grill at chicken wire ang bintana, walang fire exit.” (If the factory were not like that they would have lived. But the factory had no fire exit; its windows were slatted with steel grills and chicken wire), Novora said.