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Members of the Japan Disaster Relief Team arrive at Manila’s International Airport on Friday en route to Tacloban.
MANILA: Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao spent last night in a tent city with victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines a week after lifting the country’s spirits with his comeback victory over Brandon Rios.
Pacquiao flew in a friend’s private plane from his hometown in the south to the central town of Guiuan, which was the first part of the country to feel the wrath of Haiyan which left nearly 7,400 people dead or missing.
“ I came from these circumstances so I want to be with them,” said Pacquiao, a former street kid who was listed last year by Forbes magazine as the 14th highest-paid athlete globally with an estimated $34m in earnings.
Guiuan is the first stop on Pacquiao’s promised tour of areas ravaged by Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded.
Nine truckloads of relief goods -- along with numerous bibles -- are being sent so the deeply-religious Pacquiao can distribute them in Tacloban, she said.
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