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Shooting forces cancellation of Tacloban mass burials, says mayor

/ 07:09 PM November 13, 2013

A man brings his lifeless 6-year-old daughter to the morgue at the downtown area in Tacloban City, one of the fatalities in the storm surge whipped up by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” NIÑO JESUS ORBETA/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines—Gunshots forced the delay Wednesday of a mass burial of victims of the huge typhoon that smashed into the Philippines, the mayor of the badly-affected city of Tacloban told AFP.

“We had finished digging the mass burial site. We had the truck loaded with bodies…but…there was some shooting….they could not proceed,” Alfred Romualdez said.

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