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PHILIPPINESBlaze in Manila slum leaves 22,000 homeless A huge fire in a Manila shantytown early Jan. 12 destroyed thousands of homes and left about 22,000 residents homeless, fire department officials said. No deaths were reported. The blaze broke out before midnight Jan. 11 in the impoverished Tondo district and raged for more than seven hours. Firefighters struggled to gain access to the blaze in the overcrowded area where ramshackle homes line passageways that are too narrow for fire trucks, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said. At least 2,503 homes were burned down, leaving about 4,500 families -- or 22,000 people -- homeless, Soliman said.
The Japan Times Weekly: Jan. 17, 2004 |
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