MANILA, Philippines - Four people, including 2 children, died in a fire that gutted a Philippine Air Lines ticketing office in Cotabato City before dawn Wednesday.

Police identified the fatalities as Johnson Wee, 42; Haydee Wee, 35; Kim Patricia Wee, 8; and Enzo Wee, 6.

Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane, Cotabato City police, said the victims died of suffocation. He said the victims were trapped inside the PAL Ticketing Travel Tours inside the Hadji Datu Usman Mampen Building on Sinsuat Avenue.

Dangane said that base on initial investigations by the Cotabato City Bureau of Fire Protection, the fire was caused by an unattended lighted candle.

He said the fire broke out while the city was experiencing brownout around 4:12 a.m.. The fire was put out around 4:30 a.m.. -- Report from Noel Alamar, radio dzMM