Heavy flooding in evacuation centers

Heavy rain flooded evacuation centers in Zamboanga City, adding more misery to thousands of people displaced by a bloody Muslim rebel siege. Almost a month after followers of Moro National Liberation Front leader Nur Misuari besieged Zamboanga, over 116,000 people — around one-tenth of the port city’s population — are still sheltered in evacuation centers, where there is a shortage of toilets and medicine. But government tents have been unable to withstand the heavy rain which has been falling since October 4, causing knee-deep floods. Of the 71,000 evacuees in the city’s sports stadium, 46,000 have had to be moved from their tents to higher ground.

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