A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours.

Eight thousand people have been left homeless in Manila after a major fire ripped through a densely packed slum area on Sunday, CNN reports.

Thousands have been left homeless after a fire ripped through a densely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila.

Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the fire that left 8,000 homeless in a Manila shantytown, as the cause remains unclear.

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

A 5-alarm fire erupted in Isla Puting Bato, located in Manila’s Tondo district, on Sunday morning, quickly spreading and engulfing several homes.

Firemen tackled a huge fire that ripped through hundreds of slum homes in the Philippine capital Manila on Sunday. Footage shows a Philippine Air Force helicopter dumping water over the raging inferno in Isla Puting Bato - a squatter settlement that sits next to the heavily polluted Manila Bay - on.

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