Filipinos flock to cemeteries for All Saints' Day

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People arrive to mark All Saints’ Day at Manila North Cemetery in Manila on November 1, 2022.

AFP / Jam Sta. Rosa

 

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos clutching flowers and umbrellas poured into cemeteries across the Catholic-majority Philippines Tuesday to pay tribute to their dead loved ones on All Saints' Day for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Rain fell as thousands walked or took free motorised tricycle services to tombs scattered across sprawling graveyards in the capital Manila where many poor families live alongside the dead in shanties or mausoleums.

 

Ahead of the "day of the dead", a powerful tropical storm unleashed landslides and flooding across the archipelago nation, killing at least 110 people and leaving dozens missing.

 

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