![Bad year in the shanty towns. Fire sweeps the slum area of Quezon City in April. [Reuters]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201004/r555314_3315570.jpg "Bad year in the shanty towns. Fire sweeps the slum area of Quezon City in April. [Reuters]")
Bad year in the shanty towns. Fire sweeps the slum area of Quezon City in April.
The main highway in the Philippines capital, Manila, has been closed by thousands of squatters resisting eviction from their homes in Quezon City.
Police were ordered into the 340-hectare government-owned North Triangle property to clear it of 6,000 illegal settlers.
Police say a large team of riot police and other special units are deployed in the area to protect the demolition crews and try to keep traffic flowing.
Shantytown residents are standing with arms linked across the the road with their belongings stacked in the middle of the highway behind them.
Traffic on the six-lane highway is backed up for several kilometres as slum dwellers fight running battles with police.
In April, a fire raged through the shanty residential area of Quezon City, in suburban Manila, gutting hundreds of homes and displacing thousands of people. (From ABC News)
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