Filipino troops nudge holdouts from volcano
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-25 07:49
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It is a tense Christmas week in the Philippines as farmers plant rice in a field with the background of Mayon volcano spewing ash. |
LEGAZPI, Philippines: Federal troops went house to house yesterday threatening to use force to move hundreds of residents from the steaming slopes of a lava-spilling volcano. Some farmers begged to stay to guard their livestock while their families spent Christmas Eve in a shelter.
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