Gun battles and arson have devastated some of the crowded slums, where rows of shanties face unpaved streets.

It gave Margo an insight into how the Ripper had been able to strike so frequently in the heart of a crowded slum.

A light aircraft crashed into a crowded slum near Manila's international airport on Saturday, killing 13 people, including three children.

The majority of the deaths occur in crowded slums in Caracas.

The colorful ladies who live in a crowded slum are all convinced that a Manananggal is responsible for a series of horrific murders.

The bombing condemned nearly 150,000 to live in crowded slums, shantytowns and even caves.

Fanning out in rings of crowded squalid slums, such cities often cannot assure their poorest inhabitants decent sanitation and drinkable water.

Poverty has been worsening in the crowded slums of the capital and among the 80 percent of the people who live in rural areas.

Liberia's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities' crowded slums.

In Palestina, a crowded slum of narrow alleys and raw brick shanties, word traveled fast on a recent Tuesday night.