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Deaths in Navotas ice plant ammonia leak climb to 2: mayor

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/02/03/20210203-navotas-ammonia-leak-04.jpg"/><figcaption>Firemen cordon off and clear the area after an ammonia leak from the T.P. Marcelo Ice Plant and Cold Storage in Navotas on February 3, 2021. <em>Contributed Photo</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Another person has died following an ammonia leak in a Navotas City ice plant partially owned by the mayor&#x27;s mother, the local chief executive said Thursday.</p><p>The body of the second fatality, an electrician in the plant, was recovered inside the ice plant Thursday morning, said Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco.</p><p>A 47-year-old male employee of T.P. Marcelo Ice Plant and Cold Storage was declared dead on arrival Wednesday at the Navotas City Hospital.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/03/21/navotas-mayor-orders-evacuation-in-bayside-community-over-ammonia-leak">1 dead, 59 in hospital after ammonia leak in Navotas cold storage plant</a></li></ul><p>Some 60 residents brought to the said hospital and Tondo Medical Center have since gone home while 20 remain under observation at the Philippine General Hospital, Tiangco earlier said.</p><p>The ice plant must shoulder the cost of burial and hospitalization of the victims, he added.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/04/21/navotas-ice-plant-must-shoulder-victims-burial-hospitalization-mayor">Ice plant with ammonia leak must shoulder victims&#x27; burial, hospitalization: mayor</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Yung hospital bill atsaka burial cost ay dapat sagutin ng kompanya because ang aksidente ay nanggaling po sa kompanya,&quot; he told ABS-CBN&#x27;s Teleradyo.</p><p>(The hospital bill and burial cost should be shouldered by the company because the accident came from them.)</p><p>&quot;In this case I will not allow the city government to spend a single centavo, so lahat ng nagastos ng city government d&#x27;yan kailangan bayaran ng kompanya out of delicadeza kasi nga kamag-anak ko &#x27;yun.&quot;</p><p>(The company should pay for everything that the city government spent out of delicadeza because they&#x27;re my relatives.)</p><div><strong>--Report from Jervis Manahan, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UNzUx5XnWNc?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Another person has died following an ammonia leak in a Navotas City ice plant partially owned by the mayor's mother, the local chief executive said Thursday.</p>

Another person has died following an ammonia leak in a Navotas City ice plant partially owned by the mayor's mother, the local chief executive said Thursday.