Residents who fled their village following last month’s rebel attacks in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines have finally returned home on Saturday, but many of the houses were either burned or looted, and now villagers were trying to rebuild not only their homes, but their lives.

Villagers in Santa Barbara said their houses had been ransacked and nobody can say who were responsible in the looting, but security officials have previously blamed Moro National Liberation Front rebels, who occupied several villages here as behind it.

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