DAVAO, Philippines: A huge night fire sent slum swellers running for their lives and destroyed more than a thousand homes in the Philippines' largest southern city, officials said Sunday.
"I'm back to zero. I don't know how I can recover," said grocer Norayna Serad, who lost her store and merchandise worth 100,000 pesos ($2,225) that she had paid for with three years worth of savings from working abroad.
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