• Filipino residents search for salvageable materials after a dike collapsed in Marikina City, east of Manila.
    Filipino residents search for salvageable materials after a dike collapsed in Marikina City, east of Manila.
  • Filipino residents search through damaged homes for salvageable materials.
    Filipino residents search through damaged homes for salvageable materials.
  • A man looks at a house damaged by the collapsed dike.
    A man looks at a house damaged by the collapsed dike.
  • Filipino government workers clear debris on affected houses after a dike collapse.
    Filipino government workers clear debris on affected houses after a dike collapse.
  • Filipino children sift through the damaged houses for salvageable materials.
    Filipino children sift through the damaged houses for salvageable materials.

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Dike collapse damages houses in Philippines - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

September 01, 2015

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Local reports said, at least one hundred families were evacuated as scores of houses damaged when heavy rains caused a collapse of a dike nearby.

All photos: Mark R. Cristino / EPA

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