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Jamillah STA. ROSA, Faith BROWN

Filipinos Brave Crowds, Flooding For All Saints' Day Cemetery Visits

People jump on tombs as they visit a submerged cemetery in the the Philippines' Pampanga province (Credit: AFP)

Devout Filipinos clutching candles and flowers poured into cemeteries across the heavily Catholic Philippines on Friday to pay tribute to loved ones on All Saints' Day.

Hundreds of thousands flocked to sprawling graveyards in the capital Manila while others waded through floodwaters left by a deadly tropical storm to quietly pray and celebrate the lives of departed relatives.

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