Davao City’s fire-gutted islet to remain residential place for victims

Six days after one of the country's biggest fire this year leveled off an islet here, the city government announced that the informal settlers - or squatter families - would still be allowed to return but only after rehabilitation works would have ensured good access roads and safer electrical lines in the area.

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"Tacloban City is no more. God must have been somewhere else." - Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. (screen grab from Davao City Information Office YouTube account)

Duterte links Boulevard fire to pot session

"It is what the police said, and what the deputy mayor (in the barangay) said. They wanted to keep this quiet. But this is a public issue; it may not be the whole truth but it has to come out," Duterte said.

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