Slum

Jamaica: 74 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord (AP)

May 27th, 2010

A man watches as he holds his son's hand while soldiers patrol during a media tour organized by government authorities inside the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, Thursday, May 27, 2010. After a raid in this slum that left nearly 50 people dead in four days of gunbattles, the reputed drug kingpin who was the target may have fled the country, the government has said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Security forces went door-to-door through a bullet-pocked Jamaican slum on Thursday and said at least 74 people were killed in four days of gunbattles as they searched for…

44 reported dead in Jamaica police-gang clashes (AP)

May 26th, 2010

A police officer monitors Park Lane, a thoroughfare adjacent to Red Hills Road in the capital city of Kingston, Jamaica, Monday May 24, 2010. Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.(AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner, Ian Allen)  JAMAICA OUTAP - Jamaican security forces claimed a tenuous hold over the slum stronghold of a gang leader sought by the U.S., but only after battles that killed at least 44…

Jamaica official: 44 civilians dead in Kingston (AP)

May 26th, 2010

A police officer monitors Park Lane, a thoroughfare adjacent to Red Hills Road in the capital city of Kingston, Jamaica, Monday May 24, 2010. Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.(AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner, Ian Allen)  JAMAICA OUTAP - Jamaican security forces claimed a tenuous hold over the slum stronghold of a gang leader sought by the U.S., but only after battles that killed at least 44…

Jamaica: Gunfire, fire bombs in barricaded slum (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

Alleged drug gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is shown in this undated photo. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for 'Dudus', who is sought by U.S. authorities on drug and arms trafficking charges but residents in West Kingston neighborhoods have set up barricades to prevent the police for entering the slums to execute the order. (AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner) ** JAMAICA OUT **AP - Masked men torched a police station and traded gunfire with security forces in a patchwork of barricaded slums in Jamaica’s capital Sunday, prompting the government to declare a…

Thousands of people lose homes in Manila slum fire (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Firefighters train their hoses on burning shanties at a slum area in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, April 25, 2010. Metro Manila fire marshal Pablo Cordeta said that about 300 shanties were affected leaving some 1,500 families homeless. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A huge fire sweeping through a shantytown outside the Philippine capital has destroyed about 300 houses and left about 7,000 people homeless.


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Slum disappears in Rio mudslide; 200 feared dead (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Firefighters pull the body of a landslide victim out of the mud in the Morro do Bumba neighborhood of Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, April 8, 2010.  At least 200 people were buried and feared dead under the latest landslide to hit a slum in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - They are all gone. The Evangelical church where worshippers were praying. A daycare center where kids were playing. The pizza parlor where a family was eating.


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