MANILA, Philippines: Close to 700,000 people have gathered for the Feast of the Black Nazarene in and around Manila as of early Tuesday.

The Quiapo Church command post said that as of 6 a.m. there were about 657,700 people. Last year's Traslacion reached about 2 million.

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