More than 15,000 people were left homeless after an overnight fire struck a slum area in the Philippine capital Manila, fire officials said Wednesday.
The fire started Tuesday evening in a shanty house in the slum district of Tondo, Senior Superintendent Wilfredo Tiu, a regional chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection said. The fire destroyed 1,200 shanty houses before it was put out Wednesday morning after raging for 10 hours, according to the (dpa).
Investigators were still determining what caused the blaze, but past incidents have been blamed on faulty electrical wiring since many of the houses in the slum area have illegal connections.
Source: QNA
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