Muslim youths on top of a mosque use slingshots against Pasay City demolition men tearingdown their shanties in Baclaran. (Manila Bulletin)
Residents were injured when Pasay City policemen fired warning shots enforcing an order to demolish shanties on a Muslim community in Baclaran district opened fire at resisting residents.
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Filipinos cheer and watch for boxing icon Manny Paquiao who won over Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas Saturday night. (source)
Irish priest Fr. Michael Sinnott (right ) chats with his superior Patrick Donoghue during a news conference at the Villamor air base in Manila yesterday morning. The 79-year-old Columban missionary arrived in Manila on a Philippine Air Force Fokker plane from the Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga City. Officials said no ransom was paid for his release, and that an MILF team rescued the Columban priest from an undisclosed location nine hours by boat from Zamboanga City. (source)
The body of two-year-old Ian Colagong is dug up from the mud after his house, situated near a river at the mountainside was buried in a mudslide. Flooding and landslides triggered by storm "ondoy", caused deaths, destroyed hundreds of houses and rendered thousands of people homeless in Luzon.
