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20240422 Devastating fire Leaves 16 families homeless in Arghakhanchi

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Nepal Apr 22 2024 “Houses”

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Devastating fire Leaves 16 families homeless in Arghakhanchi

Updated: 2024-04-22

Basanta Malla, a resident of Bhumikasthan municipality-3 in Arghakhanchi, on Sunday was accumulating the ashes of her fire-ravaged house.

A total of 16 families, have been devastated after the fire on Saturday destroyed his house, food grains and clothes. “The house was destroyed in no time. There is no end to the situation. Where to live and where to eat”, Malla said with tears in his eyes.

Ganga Bahadur BK, a local, has the same pain as Malla. “Ornaments, food items, clothes, parts and citizenship were destroyed in the fire”, he said, adding that nothing could be saved in the house”.

Not only Basanta and Ganga Bahadur, 13 families whose houses were burnt in a fire in Dharapani on Saturday are now forced to live under the open sky.

Information Officer at the District Police Office, Dipendra Rawal, said that 16 houses and 10 cowsheds were gutted in the fire in Ratamata, Jabundanda, Bajakharka and Falamkhilji villages of Dharapani of Bhumikasthan municipality.

Although the fire in the settlement has been taken under control, the forest fire is yet to be completely doused.

Chief District Officer Surya Bahadur Khatri has distributed food items to the families of those who lost their homes in the fire.

At the initiative of the District Administration Office, the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has provided food items to 16 families of Ratamata area whose houses were destroyed in the fire. Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry district chapter president Pradeep Mishra said food items including rice, pulses, oil and salt have been distributed.

As many as 43 houses were gutted in the fire that broke out in different parts of the district on Saturday. Twenty houses and 23 cowsheds were destroyed and 11 goats and six buffaloes were killed in the fire at Bhumikasthan municipality, Shitganga municipality and Panini rural municipality on Saturday.

Web Source The Himalayan Times

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/devastating-fire-leaves-16-families-homeless-in-arghakhanchi

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