Philippines sends in riot police to lock down 'cesspool' Boracay
by Agence France-Presse from Environment | The Guardian on (#3MY40)
'Crowd dispersal unit' among measures to keep out tourists during six-month shutdown
The Philippines is to deploy hundreds of riot police to the holiday island Boracay to keep out tourists and head off potential protests ahead of its six-month closure to visitors.
Rodrigo Duterte has described the tiny central island and its white-sand beach as a "cesspool". The Philippine president ordered visitors to be kept away from 26 April to enable facilities to treat raw sewage to be set up and illegal structures to be torn down.
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