A blaze torched around 1,000 houses at the Isla Puting Bato district, one of Manila's sprawling squatter settlements. - Photo: Manila DRRM Office/Facebook
MANILA: Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky Sunday (Nov 24) as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila.
Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were burned in the blaze that is thought to have started on the second floor of one of the homes.
