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The Big Picture: Salvage

Slum dwellers salvage scraps of tin sheets and other re-usable materials from the ashes after a fire

Slum dwellers salvage scraps of tin sheets and other reusable materials from the ashes after a fire razed a shanty-town of 50 houses in suburban Quezon City in Manila. One person died, while 250 families lost their homes to the fire.

Photo: Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images

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