A massive fire broke out through a costal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, reports CNN.
The fire leaves at least 2000 families homeless and flames billowed for nearly eight hours.
Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila.
The Manila Fire District said: “Around 1,000 houses were destroyed and roughly 8,000 people displaced in the blaze that broke out at 8 am Sunday and burned until 4 pm.”
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty electrical wiring or gas canisters.
Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home to roughly 654,220 people. Many live in shabby shacks across densely packed streets near a busy commercial port.
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