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(Eagle News)–Some residents from Isla Puting Bato arrived in droves at the Delpan evacuation center in Tondo after they were forcibly evacuated by the local government as rains and winds due to “Tisoy” battered the area. “Ang una po nating inilikas ay ang mga bata, babae, senior citizen at PWD,” Arnel Angeles, Manila Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office chief said. Many of the men, however, stayed behind to watch over their possessions. At the evacuation […]
(AFP) — Looters mobbed a deadly slum fire in Manila on Tuesday, pulling roofing sheets and electric wire from singed homes as firemen scrambled to contain the blaze. Riot police surrounded the Isla Puting Bato shantytown at Manila’s port area after being summoned by firemen who struggled to reach burning homes accessible only through narrow alleys that were swarmed by residents as well as scavengers. An AFP photographer saw about 100 people, most of them men, engaged […]
