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Local residents salvage possessions from homes destroyed by recent floods on December 19, 2011 after the typhoon in Iligan, Philippines
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011

Open quoteThe bodies are decomposing and there is no place where we can place them, not in an enclosed building, not in a gymnasium.Close quote

  • LAWRENCE CRUZ,
  • mayor of Iligan, in the Philippines, on the mass burial of nearly 700 people who died as the result of a tropical storm
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