Thousands of people gathered in Manila on Sunday for the start of a three-day rally called by a religious group to demand accountability over a flood-control corruption scandal involving powerful Philippine lawmakers and government officials.
It is the latest show of outrage over accusations of corruption in flood-control projects in one of the world's most typhoon-prone countries. A series of protests were held in recent months after it was discovered that thousands of flood defence projects in the country were substandard, incomplete or simply did not exist.
