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Residents cook their meals with methane gas coming out from the ground in a dumpsite from accumulated garbage from back to back typhoons two months ago in Marikina
19 Nov 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Residents cook their meals with methane gas coming out from the ground in a dumpsite from accumulated garbage from back to back typhoons two months ago in Marikina Metro Manila November 19, 2009. The United Nations is raising an extra $69 million for hundreds of thousands of Filipinos still displaced by floods on the main island of Luzon, bringing to $143 million the total amount pledged for immediate typhoon relief and recovery programmes in the Philippines. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES ENERGY SOCIETY DISASTER)
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