MANILA: Thousands of people were left homeless after a huge fire razed through a poor district in the Philippine capital on Sunday, officials said, re...
Residents and firefighters put out a fire at Tondo in Manila on November 24, 2024. Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky, as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila. - JAM STA ROSA / AFP
Most of the houses in the community were made from light, combustible materials and the fire quickly spread through the area, which was adjacent to a container terminal in Manila’s port district, Ramos said.“The streets were very narrow and the walls were very high,” Ramos said.
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