A large fire swept through a shanty town near the port area of Manila in the Philippines om Sunday night, destroying about 1,000 homes and leaving more than 8,000 people homeless.

About 1,000 homes have been reduced to wreckage and ashes after fire ripped through a slum area of the Philippine capital Manila.

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A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital, destroying a thousand homes and sending smoke billowing into the sky.

Manila firefighters had difficulty reaching the incident as the streets are narrow and terminal walls were high.