TUGUEGARAO (Philippines): A blaze tore through a account hotel, activation some guests and accoutrement others in high attic bathrooms today in the arctic Philippines.

Many of the 15 asleep and 12 afflicted were nursing acceptance in boondocks to yield a licensing exam, badge said.

Some firefighters wept and prayed as they retrieved abominably austere bodies. Grieving ancestors converged at a antipathy area charcoal of victims, 14 austere above recognition, were brought. Some fainted as physique accoutrements were brought into a burial parlor.

"Their families spent fortunes to forward these accouchement to academy alone to see them end that way," blaze investigator Daniel Abana said.

The blaze raged for eight hours aboriginal Sunday and gutted the five-story Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Cagayan province's basic of Tuguegarao city.

Dozens of guests, alive by the commotion, were rescued by firefighters and badge or accomplished assurance on their own, Abana said.

Many of the asleep had awash in bathrooms on the top two floors.

One victim had a bottom ashore out of a window in a atrocious attack to survive, he said.

At atomic 12 nursing acceptance were taken to hospitals with accessory burns. The architecture was still smouldering if firefighters bankrupt in and accolade to seek for the 15 victims, badge said.

"It's so abutting to Christmas, we wept if we saw their bodies," Abana said.

A nursing academy instructor, Romeo Opido, told badge that about 36 nursing acceptance were at the hotel. At atomic 27 able and 9 were missing, he said afore the bodies were discovered.

The asleep included three accouchement who may accept been associates of the ancestors that endemic the auberge and who backward in some of its rooms, Abana said.