A child looking for salvageable materials while submerged in water filled with charred items and ash after a fire gutted a sprawling shanty town in Malabon, part of Metro Manila, shortly before midnight on Saturday. Firemen failed to save more than 300 homes which went up in flames, as officials investigate the blaze in which no one was hurt.

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