A large fire swept through a shanty town near the port area of Manila in the Philippines om Sunday night, destroying about 1,000 homes and leaving more than 8,000 people homeless.

Around 1,000 homes were destroyed on Sunday (Nov 24) after a massive fire ripped through a slum in Manila, Philippines. The homes in Isla Puting Bato housed around 2,000 families, according to authorities.

A fire has torn through a coastal town in the Philippine capital, destroying a thousand homes and sending smoke billowing into the sky.

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

A fire has ripped through a coastal town in the Philippine capital, destroying a thousand homes and sending smoke billowing into the sky.

The fire spread rapidly through makeshift homes in Manila’s Tondo district, an official said, displacing 1,000 families. “It’s like you lit up a box of matches.”

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.