Pitiful victims of the shanty shack blaze: Desperate survivors up to their necks in sludge as they try to salvage possessions from fetid black swamp

Two people are missing and 10,000 are homeless after a huge fire swept through a sprawling shanty town in Manila. 


Several residents jumped into the bay, clutching small appliances, to escape Friday's blaze in Manila's Tondo district.

Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta said fire officers had difficulty getting enough water to put the fire out and were forced to call coast guard boats to spray water from the bay.        More Read