Two children were burned alive and eight others injured in a fire that destroyed 100 homes yesterday in the Philippines.

Flames ripped through the tightly packed houses in Cebu City at 6am on Monday morning (May 7) spreading rapidly and leaving residents trapped inside.

The youngsters - nine-year-old Jovielyn Digman and her two-year-old brother John Mark - were unable to escape.

Nagiel Bañacia, the chief of Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office said the kids were trapped as the parents couldn’t get them out because the fire burned the entrance of their house first in the Ermita district of Cebu city.

Parents Joel and Jennelyn Digman, also suffered second degree burns in their futile attempt to rescue the two youngsters.

Eight other people were seriously injured in the fire which ravaged more than 100 properties and left at least 400 people homeless.

Fire chiefs said the inferno started after a liquefied petroleum gas tank exploded. It took fire crews more than two hours to control the blaze.

Two children were burned alive and eight others injured in a fire that destroyed 100 homes yesterday in the Philippines.

Flames ripped through the tightly packed houses at 6am on Monday morning (May 7) spreading rapidly and leaving residents trapped inside.

The youngsters - nine-year-old Jovielyn Digman and her two-year-old brother John Mark - were unable to escape.

Nagiel Bañacia, the chief of Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office said the kids were trapped as the parents couldn’t get them out because the fire burned the entrance of their house first in the Ermita district of Cebu city.

Parents Joel and Jennelyn Digman, also suffered second degree burns in their futile attempt to rescue the two youngsters.

Eight other people were seriously injured in the fire which ravaged more than 100 properties and left at least 400 people homeless.

Fire chiefs said the inferno started after a liquefied petroleum gas tank exploded. It took fire crews more than two hours to control the blaze.