MANILA, Philippines (AP) Officials say a fire that swept through a sprawling squatters’ colony on Manila Bay’s rim Friday May 11, 2012, has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless.
Several residents jumped into the bay, clutching small appliances, to escape Friday’s blaze in Manila’s Tondo district.Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the fire department says firemen had difficulty getting enough water to put out the fire and to call coast guard boats to spray water from the bay.
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